A couple of days ago, someone on the suse-linux-e mailing list mentioned that the Indiana Public Schools are going to start installing computers running linux (SuSE, of course, which is why it showed up there).
This led to the requisite jokes about Linux being necessary because Windows couldn’t deal with the multiple time zones, partital lack of Daylight Savings Time (until next year, at least), and all the rest. It’s Indiana. It’s a fun place to make fun of.
Then someone on the list mentioned that in his particular portion of Norway, they have Daylight Savings Time despite 22+ hours of sunlight for several months of the year.
Daylight Savings was an odd enough concept when it was begun. How odd is it, though, that it’s become necessary to save daylight in a place that’s on;y dark from 12:30 AM until 12:37 AM?