RE: don't forget to set your clocks back
- From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chaltain@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:50:56 -0600
Interesting. I assume the original poster was talking about the Congress of
the US. Daylight savings is not a US only notion, so it's not just an
illogical mandate of the US Congress but quite a few governments around the
world. Also, Technically, we're leaving daylight savings time and going back
to standard time, so the complaint should come in March when we institute
daylight savings. Finally, daylight savings goes back to World War II in the
US and much earlier in other countries, such as Great Britain, and of course
Benjamin Franklin is credited with the idea. It wasn't standardized
nationally until 1974, so it's possible that your locality did implement or
reimplement it in 1967.
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Christopher
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From: winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Britt
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:10 AM
To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: don't forget to set your clocks back
I still remember when it first went into effect. I was in junior high then.
It was back in 1967.
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From: Scott Lawlor <mailto:sklawlor@xxxxxxx>
To: Winamp for the Blind <mailto:winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ; mediaReq
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Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:20 PM
Subject: don't forget to set your clocks back
tonight's the night where we have to follow the illogical mandate of an
out-of-date notion set forth by the congress of this great country.
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