“Short of coming to their senses and abolishing the whole thing, we might expect that the rules for daylight saving time will remain the same for some time to come, but there is no guarantee. (We can only be glad there is no daylight loan time, or we would face decades of too much daylight, only to be faced with a few years of total darkness to make up for it.)”

— Erik Naggum

The Long, Painful History of Time http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html.

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Norwegian computer programmer 1965–2009

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