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RE: Sun Rise

To: "'NKED65A@prodigy.com'" <NKED65A@prodigy.com>,
Subject: RE: Sun Rise
From: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 13:05:05 -0800
try this URL   http://cmpsolv.com/los/sunset.html
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>From:  Paul Hunt[SMTP:on76@dial.pipex.com]
>Sent:  Thursday, November 21, 1996 12:21 PM
>To:    NKED65A@prodigy.com; mgs@autox.team.net
>Subject:       Re: Sun Rise
>
>>Can Someone in GB please advise me as to what time the sun rises and
>>sets this time of year.  Would there be much difference  in the 
>>times between London and Edinburgh ?
>
>Don't know the official times but here in the Midlands it is about 
>0730 and 1600.  I think Scotland gets an hour or two less daylight, 
>which is why the experiment of keeping to Summer Time all year round 
>was abandoned.  I understand some people in Scotland claimed that 
>there was an increase in accidents involving children in the 
>mornings, which seems fair enough, but less so if the counter-claim 
>that they were more than outweighed by the reductions in accidents to 
>children in the evenings is equally true.
>
>BTW, Autumn 1996 saw the whole of Europe change its clocks on the 
>same day for the first time, after 17 years on negotiations.  Now 
>France has announced that they are to remain on Summer Time all year 
>round.  It was France that introduced changing the clocks in the 
>first place.
>
>I was surprised to discover that the USA changes its clocks, why?  
>Its northern border is further south than the southern border of 
>England, which has no need for daylight reasons.
>
>
>PaulH
>73 Roadster (HD&H)
>75 V8 (DD)
>
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