In article <georgespamk-E25934.16465331102...@news.isp.giganews.com>, rocket scientist <georgesp...@toast.net> wrote:
>it's not fair. ;)
They're only borrowing it for a few months; you'll get it back in the spring.
Gary
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>They're only borrowing it for a few months; you'll get it back in >the spring.
For what purpose? Isn't it, by now, counterproductive?
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In article <D69Hm.8248$Js....@newsfe10.iad>, "Annie Woughman" <anniewough...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Gary Heston" <ghes...@hiwaay.net> wrote in message > news:2eSdnbw-e7KDZ3HXnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@posted.hiwaay2... > > In article <georgespamk-E25934.16465331102...@news.isp.giganews.com>, > > rocket scientist <georgesp...@toast.net> wrote: > >>it's not fair. ;)
> > They're only borrowing it for a few months; you'll get it back in > > the spring.
> > Gary
> You have that backwards. They borrowed it last spring and are giving it > back now. You have an extra hour to sleep tonight.
yeah, but I'm up as usual to my own "clock". And I forgot to mention. Some clocks don't like to be pushed backwards. esp. electric ones , ones with motors and gears. better to unplug and wait and hour or so. change the calendar to November too.
> In article <georgespamk-E25934.16465331102...@news.isp.giganews.com>, > rocket scientist <georgesp...@toast.net> wrote: > >it's not fair. ;)
> They're only borrowing it for a few months; you'll get it back in > the spring.
It's the other way around - at the end of October, we go back to standard time. The hour gets "borrowed" in the spring, when we go from standard time to daylight savings time.
> Umm, how, exactly, are they "stealing an hour"? Time just happens, it's all > about how it's measured. "Time" CANNOT be stolen.
Ho ho - that is relative! There was a time that the King decreed a time change that "cheated" the workers of about 2 weeks of pay and they were pissed! Maybe someone remembers the story.
>"Gary Heston" <ghes...@hiwaay.net> wrote in message >news:2eSdnbw-e7KDZ3HXnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@posted.hiwaay2... >> In article <georgespamk-E25934.16465331102...@news.isp.giganews.com>, >> rocket scientist <georgesp...@toast.net> wrote: >>>it's not fair. ;)
>> They're only borrowing it for a few months; you'll get it back in >> the spring.
>> Gary
>You have that backwards. They borrowed it last spring and are giving it >back now. You have an extra hour to sleep tonight.
> > Umm, how, exactly, are they "stealing an hour"? Time just happens, it's all > > about how it's measured. "Time" CANNOT be stolen.
> Ho ho - that is relative! There was a time that the King decreed a time > change that "cheated" the workers of about 2 weeks of pay and they were > pissed! Maybe someone remembers the story.
I doubt that anyone "remembers" the change, since it occurred in 1752. 11 days were dropped when England (and English America) changed from the Julian calendar (adopted by Julius Caesar in 45 BC) to the Gregorian (developed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 AD). That month, people earned 11 days less pay, but landlords tried to collect rents for a full month. People were understandably not happy.
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