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Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time (Was: American Airlines - Last one standing) Posted on: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:17:22 EDT

> Now, with farmers representing far less than 1% of the population,
> to have darkness every afternoon is just silly, unsafe, and expensive.
> Well, you have to be a little careful not to shift so much of it to the
> morning hours that young school kids have to walk to school in the dark,
> on busy roads not equipped with sidewalks.

In the upper midwest, daylight savings doesn't make sense when you go
from 16 hours of daylight (5 AM to 9 PM) in the summer to 8 hours of
daylight (8:30 AM to 4:30 PM) in the winter.