French, meaning 'German time', more commonly known as daylight savings time.
Have you guessed why they would call it 'German time'?
You'll certainly understand if we tell you that old folks remembered it by that name when it was introduced as a regular feature on the continent a couple of decades back.
The K-Landnews folks love Daylight savings time (DST).
Except for the changes back and forth. Applying, as we do at the K-Landnews, another value added term for the procedure, we call it 'dumb'.
Having DST go into late fall is a boon to people who tend to get depressed in the winter months. That extra hour is a clear unsung health benefit.
Now, why in the world can't we have DST all year round?
Don't tell us it is because of the farmers. There are so few of them anyway in the West, they should get their own endangered species label. We could subsidize them for that instead of paying for their pesticides.
Year round DST would be much more efficient than the current setup, why are all the efficiency and operations management experts silent on that one? Because they are in hibernation?
If I had a small chunk of the money lost because some enterprise software has a DST problem, I could fund one of the world's larger charities.
Time conscious folks prefer GMT, more correctly UTC, or the hardcore label Zulu time.
Sure, the first is too scientific for a lot of people, and the second will likely be seen as yet another step towards a sinister world government.
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