Daylight Savings Change Proposed

AveryRegier writes "CNN is reporting that Congress has added an amendment to the Energy Bill to extend daylight-savings time by two months. They expect to "save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day." How long it would take for the associated energy savings to overcome the cost to make, test, and deploy the necessary code changes? How would the cost of this change compare with Y2K? Does most date routines' reliance on GMT make this just an issue of presenting the right time to the user?"

Comments

I thought you were all green freaks?

[stratjakt]

You'd rather piss away another 10,000 barrels of oil a day because fixing a bunch of software would be a pain in the ass?

Don't you want jobs?

Well, most slashdotters don't have any computer skills, let alone as programmers, but still?

Or is this just a case of "it behooves us to whine about everything the government does"?

Re:How does the US differ from EU ?

[barzok]

Because the US didn't commission/write the study, of course!

Any sane, logical-thinking person would agree that the study should probably be, for the most part, applicable to the US as well as the EU, but this is Congress proposing this, so all bets are off.

Re:Quick Question

[ImaLamer]

And you think that George W. Bush would condone a savings in energy spending? A negative one at that!

He owned a oil company, attacked Iraq, and has friends in the Saudi government.... and how much is gas right now? I saw $2.29 last time I left the house (which was suprisingly today).

Re:Slow Down!

[Grishnakh]

BS. By your logic, all the bumper-to-bumper rush-hour traffic is even better because everyone's moving so slow.

Different cars are most efficient at different speeds, but in most cities, the problem is too much traffic, not excessive speed.

Re:Well I did my share.

[Quiet_Desperation]

Aw... the uncultured little AC is jealous. How precious. :)