[LEAPSECS] USWP7A docs for 2013 September meetings

[Tony Finch]

Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

>

> These offsets have a granularity of about an hour, and many places

> change twice a year, to put the noon-sun a more convenient place

> than south for part of the year.  (BTW: It'll be interesting to see

> how increasing global temperatures will affect DST policies.)


DST exists to make the time of sunrise more convenient. Before astronomers
started using the noon transit to set clocks, sunrise was the important
benchmark. From the human factors point of view, fixing the clocks to noon
is awkward and uncomfortable.

Tony.
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