I have no problem with staying with DST year-round. Although changing a few clocks twice a year isn't really a huge aggravation. Pretty minimal work, if you ask me. When I worked in the photo lab decades ago, in winter I would report to work before the sun rose and worked in darkness due to the nature of the job. By the time I got off work, the sun had already set. For a couple of months each year, the only time I saw the sun was if I got to go "out" for lunch, and that was once or twice every two weeks. Maybe a few minutes of sunlight, IF there wasn't an inversion. I felt as if I worked in Barrow, Alaska. It was a total drag. These days, in my current job, aren't much different on MST. A few more minutes of sunlight, when the atmospheric gods approve. DST rules. On 12/23/11, Barrett <BarrettWF@comcast.net> wrote:

I agree with the inverse....Do away with the government, keep DST year round...I can go for that! :-) -Barrett Merry Christmas!

-----Original Message----- So the next best thing is to simply do away with it (DST, not the federal government <g> ). patrick _____________________________________________

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On 12/26/11, Larry Holmes <larry@kijoda.com> wrote:

Chuck, my father had a very sensible solution. He was a rancher and said "the cows don't know the difference" so, since we lived about 75 miles inside the eastern edge of PST, he just went on MST for the summer months.

Alas, my employers know the difference, so that won't work for me. Though the rest of the analogy is pretty good, lol. The late Dick Proenneke refused to change his clocks during his 30+ years living in the Alaskan wilderness, much to the surprise (and sometimes annoyance when lunch was late) of his guests and visitors. Not having even a radio in his cabin, he only had a wristwatch and a wind-up alarm clock. Sometimes he'd forget to wind both, and had to set them by guess. He also knew precisely when the sun would clear a particular mountain peak when seen from his cabin and set his timepieces that way on occassion. He was rarely more than ten minutes off when he relied on the sun's position. Visiting bush pilots would periodically give him a time check. On a personal note, you know you're getting up there in years when you find yourself waking up at the same time on your days off that you do on work days. Sigh.