On Tuesday 31 March 2009 00:39:46 Mike Bird wrote: > On Mon March 30 2009 16:12:57 Tom Furie wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:47:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Now, I want to stop arguing about the descriptions. But just one last > > > shot. I believe it is factually incorrect to say that you 'lose an > > > hour' in switching from standard to summer time. It is conventional > > > wording, it is manifestly untrue. But if people say it often enough, > > > it becomes something that is used in syllogisms as if it were a fact. > > > > To be slightly pedantic about it, if you go to bed at whatever your > > usual time is before the clocks change and still have to get up at the > > same (clock) time in the morning as you did the day before, then you do > > lose an hour of sleep, that night. Then again, by the same argument, > > seven months or so later you get that hour back, so it all balances > > anyway.
To be unpedantic and factual, what officially happens here in the UK is that we lose an hour of clock time. The clock hour between 01:00 and 02:00 does not exist that night. Clocks are deemed to move from 00:00:59 to 02:00. When we move the other way we gain an hour of clock time. Clocks move from 01:59:59 to 01:00:00. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
