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Is Daylight Saving Shift Really Worth It?

Posted by Hemos on 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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  2. Re:Who cares about "energy savings"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    finally article to which chick can respond and none replies to her

  3. Re:Value may not be measurable in economics by mobby_6kl · · Score: 1, Troll

    DST doesn't give you any more daylight than there is. Why don't you just exercise in the morning and leave everyone else out of this?

  4. Re:Another case of academia vs. the real world by Dog-Cow · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apparently academia does nothing what-so-ever for one's intelligence. You need a life.