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Re: Unix Time and Leap Seconds and daylight savings time

Posted by gosha bine on 06/27/07 13:38

On 27.06.2007 15:33 Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> bill wrote:
>> Robert Newson wrote:
>>> David T. Ashley wrote:
>> ...
>>>
>>> Daylight saving (though how calling one time another saves daylight -
>>> there will be exactly the same amount of daylight in the day
>>> regardless of what you call the hours - I'm still trying to work out)
>> ...
>>
>> When a sample of Iowa farmers were asked about the effect of
>> increasing the amount of daylight savings time this year, a fair
>> number said that it would make the summer hotter because there would
>> be more sunlight to warm the earth. They were evenly divided if this
>> was a good thing or not.
>>
>> bill
>
> Another urban legend.
>

That was an example of so-called "joke", Jerry. ;))


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