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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. Re:I'm still tired and coffee'd up to my eyeballs! by Drakonian · · Score: 0, Troll
    Oil supplies are being depleted at an alarming rate

    Your source, please?

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  2. Re:I'm still tired and coffee'd up to my eyeballs! by cpeterso · · Score: 1, Troll


    4. VW bus exclusionary zones (so hippies will stop polluting the environment with their huge, low gas mileage, dirty vehicles)
    5. Bio-diesel exclusionary zones (so hippies will stop making the environment smelling like Freedom Fries, thus inciting obese Americans to eat at McDonald's)

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  3. Re:Ban SUVs = Save More Oil Than Expanding DST by JesusCigarettes · · Score: 0, Troll

    Go for the $1 solution that gives a $100 reward. If you want to see a huge impact on our total enegery use all they would have to do is ban the good ol incadecent light bulb.

    You know, you're exactly right. I don't think the government is interfering in my choices *nearly* enough. I want the government to tell me what kind of light bulbs I can install too.

    I'm all for energy conservation, but please, don't suggest the government needs to regulate the free market for stupid reasons. 99% of the public bought the lies about recycling - brainwash them about incandescent bulbs and you have a solution without unnecessary government interference.

  4. Re:I'm still tired and coffee'd up to my eyeballs! by LukaFox · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe we should measure time as just one number (like computers). The only downside would be that it'd be a huge number. Other than that, it would make doing math with dates and times easier, and we wouldn't need leap years, DST, or any of the other devices set up to keep our calendar straight and the sun high in the sky at the right times.

  5. Re:There's a good side to everything... by avida · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is not a benefit of Daylight Savings Time. It's miscommunication that could happen due to different time zones, languages, or a bad cell phone connection. Now go into you corner, dork.