Is Daylight Saving Shift Really Worth It?

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 12, 2007 @12:36AM from the questioning-the-wisdom dept.

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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Re:Already spending money? by grahamm · 2007-03-12 01:25 · Score: -1, Redundant

Before we had DST, it was HELL. All year, it got dark at like 2:00pm. If without daylight saving time it was dark by 2pm, then unless it was also not light until 10am (which unless you are close to either the Arctic or Antarctic circle is very unlikely) then you are in the wrong timezone. In the correct timezone, there should be approximately equal periods of light either side of noon.