[154478] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Jul 5 07:26:20 2012
In-Reply-To: <4FF5781C.9030808@sportradar.com>
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 07:25:15 -0400
To: Henning Stener <h.stener@sportradar.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 5, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Henning Stener <h.stener@sportradar.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>=20
>> 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, a=
nd
>> 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.
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>> Nick
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> 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.
I'm only at (aproxamately) 42.28755874876601 north. Once you go near 60 nort=
h the value changes significantly.
There is a band of latitudes where it does make more sense.=20=
