11 Oct 06 12:17, Sergi Reyner wrote to DAVID WILLIAMS:

 MM>>> Down under here in New Zealand,  we went into New Zealand Standard
 MM>>> Time (GMT+13) on 19th March 2006 - and back in DST (GMT + 14) on
 MM>>> 1st October 2006.  Don't know what, if any, sort of rule applies,
 MM>>> but these were the 3rd Sunday in March and the 1st in October.

 DW>> The interesting thing is that these dates are much more symmetrical,
 DW>> compared with the solstices, equinoxes, etc, than the ones we use in
 DW>> the Northern Hemisphere. This makes sense, since the Equation of
 DW>> Time has a far greater effect in the northern winter than the
 DW>> southern one.

 SR> In Spain, nothing about this makes sense.

I'll bet it does, if you take into account the rest of Europe is on the
same DST.

 SR> They sell it to us as an energy saving measure, which is absurd if we
 SR> take into account that most people here usually have dinner at say
 SR> 10pm,

Perhaps just those in your circle of influence. Business commerce requires
somebody to be awake during day.

 SR> and many people goes to sleep late in the night, past midnight.

After missing many hours of their sleep, how do they get to work by 6am?

 SR> So there's really not much of an energy saving.

Think in terms of industry.

 SR> On the other hand, for reasons that escape any thinking mind, while
 SR> Portugal has GMT, we go with the same time that the Germans.

Actually, you should be on the same time as the French. GMT 0 runs right
through France and Spain, as well as England. GMT 0 +30 would be more like
it for Spain. Portugal should be GMT 0 -30.

 SR> So when they wake up at 6:00am, it's a perfectly decent hour to do
 SR> so. When we wake up at 6:00am, it's closed night.

And you must be very tired, after losing all those hours of sleep. :o)

 SR> When we wake up at 7:00am, it's still closed night. And in some
 SR> weeks, when we woke up at 8:00am it's still dark.

I never get up before daun. I don't go to bed until midnite either.
Neither do I have to work. :o)


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