"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.)"

Made me laugh. The whole article is very interesting, I'll never look at a print time statement in the same way again.

How amusing that the date at the top is 1999-10-11, itself ambiguous.

I like the "scientific time"/"political time" wording, snarf.

By the way, I've noticed that while 200x was used most places for a while, it's becoming increasingly common to see 2 digit years used again, even in forms belonging to major institutions.