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On 26/04/2013 23:43, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here |
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>> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow and |
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>> in the dark to geet their before 9 o'clock. Not fun. DST would have |
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>> helped. |
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> No it wouldn't - DST makes it darker in the morning. When I was about 11, |
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> the government experimented with using BST all year round. One of the |
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> reasons given for not doing it was that kids would have to go to school |
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> in the dark. |
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Hmmm. DST as punted here was couched in reverse terms - have kids go to |
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school when it was light, as it would still be light in the early |
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afternoon when they went home. |
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DST never took off here, it would only be useful in the Cape down south |
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and only for about a month or so of the year. |
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