[154477] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henning Stener)
Thu Jul 5 07:19:46 2012
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:18:52 +0200
From: Henning Stener <h.stener@sportradar.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4FF57512.2090208@foobar.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 05/07/12 13:05, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 05/07/2012 11:34, Jared Mauch wrote:
>> Live further north and you will see the difference dst makes.
>
> This is true. Ireland, UK, NL, Denmark, northern Germany and northern
> Poland are at a similar latitude to Polar Bear Provincial Park by Hudson
> Bay. With DST, we get much more usable evenings March through October, and
> the sun rises at 05:00 instead of 04:00 in the morning, so early risers
> don't get woken up at 4 every day. During the winter, regular time means
> that we have sunrise after 08:30 for 5 weeks. At this latitude, DST is
> serious win.
>
> Nick
>
>
Live further north and you will see the absurdity of dst. :)
I live in Norway. In summer the sun is up, in winter the sun is not up.
At this latitude, dst is..meh.
Henning
