¡Hi DAVID!

10 Oct 06 23:26, DAVID WILLIAMS wrote to Miles Maxted:

 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 Time
 DW> has a far greater effect in the northern winter than the southern one.

In Spain, nothing about this makes sense. They sell it to us as an energy saving
measure, which is absurd if we take into account that most people here usually
have dinner at say 10pm, and many people goes to sleep late in the night, past
midnight. So there's really not much of an energy saving.

On the other hand, for reasons that escape any thinking mind, while Portugal
has GMT, we go with the same time that the Germans. So when they wake up at
6:00am, it's a perfectly decent hour to do so. When we wake up at 6:00am, it's
closed night. When we wake up at 7:00am, it's still closed night. And in some
weeks, when we woke up at 8:00am it's still dark.

Regards,
Sergi Reyner (2:348/105.38)

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