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Mean Split

Mon Mar 9, 2009, 8:26 AM
All through out history we’ve had great ideas that have changed our society for the better.
Although the really old ones like fire and the wheel were so far back that no one will be given proper credit, the great ideas from the last 4-500 years are all well documented.
The people who came up with them were proud of what they’ve come up with.

15th century

Leonardo De Vinci is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics.

16th century

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically-based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.

Johannes Kepler discovered that the paths planets follow are elliptical.

I could go on and on.
I guess my point is, was anyone ever proud of thinking up Daylight Savings Time?
How many people know who came up with it, let alone the real reason why?

I want to suggestsomething new.
I'll call it Mean Split Time.
Rather than switching our clocks forward and back every few months. lets move it forward 30 minutes and leave it there.
take the mean average and split the difference.

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One of those great men of which you speak is Ben Franklin (Feb 27), the same man who gave us daylight savings time.

My extensive research on the life and times of Ol' Ben tells me . . . . . he'd agree with you. :-D

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