Is Daylight Saving Shift Really Worth It?

Krishna Dagli writes "Two Ph.D. students at the University of California at Berkeley say that Daylight Saving Shift will not do any good or create any energy savings. We are already spending money for software upgrades in the name of saving energy and after reading following article I wonder has congress really studied the impact of DST shift? " I also read some back story on the concept; OTOH, I found TiVo's suggestions that I manually change everything on my Series 1 device to be somewhat...insulting.

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I want my time back

[billcopc]

DST is kind of dumb, yes, but what's even dumber is how twice a year around the clock shift date, a bunch of cocky little dorks write the same uncreative garbage about the evils of DST. Next year they might throw in a twist and say "DST causes homosexuality" or some southern retarded puke.

In the world, there are three driving forces: money, control, and religion. DST is driven by money. By having "more" sunny time, we have more spending time. Drive around, or drop by a terrace for a drink... things people are much less likely to do after darkness falls.

I personally wish we could leave our clocks alone and just have people get up one hour earlier if they need to. It's easier to have a billion people show up to work one hour early (with a few tardy folks), than to spend ages reprogramming every single electronic device on the planet to hopefully copy with this artificial rift in time. Linux does a semi-decent job by trying to keep everything in UTC, then cooking the timezone for display, but it's still a pain in the ass.