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Daylight Savings Change Proposed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the time-to-patch-some-code dept.

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?"

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  1. Adjust the time so that it really saves daylight by DeadSea · · Score: 5, Funny

    The problem with standard time in the summer is that the sun rises before anybody is up (like 4 AM) and some daylight in the morning is just wasted. Daylight savings time moves dawn back to 5 AM and gives you an extra hour of daylight in the evening.

    You probably see where I'm going with this: who in their right mind is actually awake at 5 AM to enjoy the daylight?????

    Daylight savings time should move the day another five hours or so. Imagine if the sun were just coming up as I started thinking about getting out of bed by 10. At 11 or so it would have fully roused me and I could get up and enjoy the full day. At 2 or 3 in the morning the sun would be setting just as I was starting to grow weary of my hacking and start thinking about going to bed. I -- along with most other similarly minded geeks -- would be ever so much more productive.

    Of course some of you might complain about the extra screen glare, claim that you don't get any natural light in your basement anyway, or state that you just plain dislike that burning yellow eye in the sky.

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  2. Re:I could be wrong... by Alien+Being · · Score: 5, Funny

    The extra 's' is for extra "savings".

  3. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? by That's+Unpossible! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Absolutely -- rest assured. Kids are now safe.

    For 3 months.

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  4. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is how Governments add to anything! :-)

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  5. He's not kidding. by Len · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's what one of your members of Congress says:

    The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use.

    Hey, why not just stop all the clocks at noon permanently?

  6. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? by cft_128 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I once woke at the crack of dawn, then I realized I was looking west.

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  7. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? by XMyth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or maybe you WERE hit by a car but you have amnesia?

    Must've been a pretty bad hit. I hope you're OK.

  8. Re:Creating a Boom? by saigon_from_europe · · Score: 5, Funny
    The cheapest way is to grow lots of plants.
    That is one reason more for DST. Plants will get one more hour of sunlight for free.
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