Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <jgregw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, August 22, 2005 @ 12:18 AM, Stanley Long wrote:

>James Knott wrote:
>> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> 
>>>On Thursday 18 August 2005 2:39 pm, Mike wrote:
>>>
>>>>Don't forget Alaska.  Currently 2 time zones, and only one follows
>>>>daylight savings, and crosses iirc 3 solar time zones.
>>>
>>>Duly noted, but with over 10 hours of sunlight during the summer, does 
>>>Alaska need a daylight savings.
>> 
>> 
>> Isn't it closer to 6 months of daylight?  ;-)
>> 
>> 
>Look at the day/night graphic at http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/

>also a tabular text summary:
>................Sunrise.........Sunset
>21 Aug  	6:25 AM 	9:40 PM
>22 Aug  	6:28 AM 	9:37 PM

>Daylight today: 	15h 14m
>Loss of: 	5m 36s

Right.  Check out that daily loss number.  That's over a half hour less
daylight each week.

Greg Wallace