>This would not surprise me. In the States we move the clock an hour in the spring to allow more "daylight" hours - Daylight Savings Time - adopted all over the U.S. except in parts of the very conservative state of Indiana where some legislators were sure it was some kind of Communist plot < s

And the entire state of Arizona.


>(the same legislature once proposed a law making pi = to 3.0 in order to make math easier for students )

I was about to tell you that this is an urban legend. I went to find the right page at Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.htm) and was surprised to see that, in fact, the Indiana House did pass such a bill, but the Senate had a few more brain cells.

Tamar