[FRIAM] Sunshine protection act

[Gillian Densmore]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:34 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

>
> On 3/15/22 3:29 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> > Please pass
> >
> https://www.cnet.com/culture/senate-unanimously-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/
> >
> > I had to google that this wasn't early April fools, or that I was
> > misreading things.
>
> except they got it backwards?   People who *like* getting up and going
> to work before the sun comes up should find a job where that is
> rewarded, or at least accepted... there are many.   But how many folks
> want to walk into work from the parking lot in the dark at 8AM?
>
>

> I'm a bit of a purist, wanting the sun to be at "high noon" at noontime
> and the sunrise and sunset roughly symmetric around that moment.  It is
> a tiny and ideological thing, so I get it that nobody else cares.
>
Agreed that noon. 'high noon' is when the sun is at the top of the sky.
And we have. Or at least probably have any number of simple tech fixes to
get  a lot of sunshine through the day for any given location. such that
noon at *35° 41' 29.5584'' N and 105° 56' 39.0588'' W*.  For Santa Fe, NM
means that sensors and some kind of geo-location hack for clocks, computers
etc know to make adjustments through out the year to make sure noon means
the sun is pretty close to the top of the sky on a y axis for those
coordinates.
lol but I have a feeling words like: probabilities, statistically even,
Y-axis, optimal, random, and simply give us enough F'n sunshine. For the
white house would make to many peoples eyes glaze over. just getting to
have one or the other is a pretty good solid step. Dynamic Time adjustments
can come along shortly.
What's kind of funny is Arizona has been quietly sitting around going
we're working just fine, you don't need to...ok how long is this weirdness
going to keep going.
I wonder how many tongs got bitten on to not do a told you so. and how many
more going to be pretty sore for quite a while if/when it passes.

> but... whatever... I have very few schedules enforced on me, and those
> that are are generally not as arbitrary as the MDT/DST differences.
>
> > Now it just needs to get passed the court jester and man who looks and
> > sounds like a constipated turtle: Mconnel.
> >
> > Gives me a little hope for UBI and a NHS.
> >
> I'd like to think that a unanimous decision like this might help break
> up some of the corrosion in the system keeping it locked up, but I think
> the GOP (goofy old party) has too much invested in things that the UBI
> and NHS would confront.
>
> LOL I like how you think. And alas, probably right.
>
I googled how many places don't have a summer or winter clock: a lot don't.
Is this graph right that Japan noped out of a summer and winter clock
system?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country
so what I'm reading is two clocks is limited to only a few places and the
rest of the globe is working pretty well with one type of clock? coolness!

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