the eleven days

Toby G Levy tobylevy at juno.com
Tue Mar 21 05:11:43 CST 2006


David,

If yesterday was March 20th and today March 31st, would you expect to get
paid for the eleven days that didn't exist?  Hourly workers were still
paid for every hour they worked.

Toby
 
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:12:22 -0800 "David Casseres"
<david.casseres at gmail.com> writes:
> Working men did in fact lose 11 days' wages, I think.  The modern
> American counterpart of this event is the twice-yearly twitch 
> between
> Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time.  Most Americans are now 
> used
> to this, and snicker at the few who still complain about it.  But
> rural people do find themselves sending their kids off to school in
> the dark, among other real inconveniences, for reasons that go 
> against
> intuition.



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