Dear Anonymous Coward, On Saturday 17 September 2005 21:24, Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:
Oh pompous one
Pompous? I think we're using different dictionaries. You, however, are displaying condescension and paternalism in your insistence in protecting people from something that you admit doesn't adversely affect you.
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If you want me to believe this (daylight savings time) is a serious problem for you, then you must accept that I cannot hold your intellect in very high esteem. You're probably always running late (not to mention running red lights, speeding and generally posing a much greater menace than sub-optimal light timings for one hour twice a day).
As you presume -- based on apparent psychic knowledge -- that you know my personal behaviors you must accept that I cannot hold your intellect in very high esteem. I am typically early or at worse on time, and I plan ahead, so I do not have to rush.
Well, I'm glad to hear that. So daylight savings time does not adversely affect you. Do you think that while you can easily accommodate DST, others need to be protected from it?
My concerns about an arbitrary DST rescheduling are displayed in the examples above that involve other people and will introduce a very wide spread coding and testing cycle for a great many people. Your indifferent attitude is horrendously selfish. Perhaps time doesn't matter to you, because (and I am only guessing and did not consult the psychic friends network) you are homeless and enjoy it or independently wealthy and retired. If you've somehow achieved a personal nirvana that requires you don't ever look at a clock then Congratulations.
Cut the sarcasm, will you, please? What the clock displays when the sun comes up and goes down does not matter to me. Why should it? It's all entirely arbitrary. Naturally, the passage of time, how much I have in a day, how long I'll live, do matter to me. DST start and end dates have nothing to do with these aspects of time. You've now confirmed my earlier suspicion: that you believe it's up to you to protect others from the ravages of DST. While their reasons may or may not be valid (and may not even have been honestly stated), clearly Congress did not change the DST start and end dates just to toss a monkey wrench into various societal gears. If you believe they did, then I must question you true motives in putting for this argument. Do you simply believe that government is by its very nature a bad thing? Are you an anarchist? Do you believe you alone (and those who agree with you) should be in charge of all these matters? I remain completely unconvinced that this is a real issue. It is trivially accommodated within existing technological means, as we've already covered. People have been dealing with it for decades without serious impact.
But if you cared enough to listen you would understand that time effects everyone else. If you don't care, why do you keep responding?
Why do people debate? I care about the argument. If you don't think this is worthwhile, bow out yourself. I am, for the moment, anyway, trying to get you to see the error in your reasoning and to concede, as gracefully as you can manage at this point, that your objections are, at best, much ado about nothing and at worst, overbearing, condescending and paternalistic. Randall Schulz