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Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power
Brett writes "Results from energy companies are coming in, and the word is that moving Daylight Saving Time forward three weeks had no measurable impact on power consumption. The attempt by the US Congress to make it look like they were doing something about the energy crisis has been exposed as the waste it is. But the new DST is probably here to stay — letting the bill expire would mean re-patching a lot of systems again next year. So much for saving energy."
But, the DST change was one of the ONLY things they could agree on!!!!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
I thought feel-good legislation always worked. :-/
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
$200/hr * 20 * 8 clients = enough cha ching to enjoy this crap.
It didn't hurt anything? My "automatic" clock that I bought a few years ago is now worthless. It's supposed to automatically change based on the old DST schedule. Now, I have to manually turn it ahead myself, then a few weeks later, remember to manually turn it back because it automatically went forward on the old scehdule. Ditto for the fall. It's obnoxious. The government owes me a new automatic clock.
Water utilities claim there was no measureable impact to water consumption after their "hold your pee in for an hour before going to the bathroom" campaign wrapped up last weekend, in an effort to minimize water consumption and save the planet of resources. =P
When I had to switch my clock back on Ubuntu (the timezone fix did not make it in the apt-get updates somehow), my makefile on my hour-long build project refused to build (citing misalignment of the timestamps of the files). So I had to delete all my files and fetch them all again after I put the clock back to the way it was before.
After that, I turned on my amp and surround sound system and watched a movie during lunch while blasting away the AC because I got so hot from all the work.
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
On the flip side though, all the exta sunshine makes crops grow better so it should make farmers happier!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
In fact, I fucking hate it. The sun is trying to kill me, and giving it any more opportunities to do that doesn't make me any happier.
I used my saved energy as a carbon offset to burn additional energy.
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
"exercise outside"
Wrong web site...
We're struggling with sun glare on the screen while firing up Counter Strike...
Sleep is for the Weak
I'm going to start a charity to collect these DST impaired clocks. You can ship me your clocks and I will distribute them to chronometer-impaired individuals throughout the non-DST observing state of Arizona.
I'm a lobbyist with the North American Automatically Time Changing Clock, Watch and Timepiece Manufacturers Association and we paid good money to have this bill passed so that we can sell more automatically changing clocks, watches and timepieces.
Record profits this year, my friend, record profits. You should have invested in manufacturers of automatically changing clocks, watches and timepieces.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Congress wasted time on this bill that could have been spent getting something important done, such as finally hammering out a definate government policy on Stem Cell research, abortions
Yeah, because Congress totally would have accomplished something on THOSE deadlock issues....
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"Do something!" (Col. Sanders on the intercom)
The time change did not affect the amount of daylight, or the number of hours over which that daylight was distributed.
Check out the brain on Brad. OMG I THOUGHT CHANGING MY CLOCK TIME ACTUALLY ALTERED THE TILT OF THE EARTH!!1!!!111! Thank you DragonWriter!
Wow, sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the day light saving time today.
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Are you serious? Because my wife has one of these clocks by her bed. I can't bear to hear her complain about the wonderful 109th Congress four times a year.
These people in Arizona are going to have NO EXCUSE for oversleeping with all the used alarm clocks they're going to get.
Everybody knows that this was an unusually bright winter. I wonder why you never hear about the problem with Global Brightening?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
That's right. The Sun burned up just as much fuel after daylight savings was introduced as it did before. Lawmakers are baffled.
You have to measure the savings by looking at the sales of candles, the same way Ben Franklin did.
After all, if it was good enough for the Founding Fathers it's good enough for patriotic Americans, eh? Anybody that says otherwise is clearly a liberal who is soft on terrorism and hates America.
As many have said, I like the extra daylight. It would be nice if it saves energy, but the extra daylight is more important to me.
Now if they would only legislate it so the sun didn't set at all.
I do not get this. My wife makes the same sort of comments. I tell her to put the baby to bed at 9pm if it's still too light at 8pm and she says the baby will be cranky because she is staying up too late.
I used to try to explain. Now I just nod.
...or "TIMEBLA"...
--Rob
Towards the Singularity.
How many bullshit animated cursor exploits have I patched my Solaris machines for this year?
It is an incredibly biased piece. ,at the very least, a year before they can glean an real facts about the change.
It will be
2 years would be more worth while.
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You forgot the fine print:
Margin of error: +/- 33%
You people have no vision. When I make a Slashdot comment, I want it to stand the test of time. We'll see who's laughing in 2050.
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
That may work alright in the spring, but what happens when fall comes around?
-time for bed...let me just adjust my alarm clock first....
-oh, look...I still have an hour before bed. I'll go watch the TV
-that's odd, my favorite show isn't on at its usual time
-time for bed...let me just adjust my alarm clock first....
What about the lyrics of 9 to 5?
I mean 8 to 4, for half the year, just sounds ridiculous.
Yeah, the democrates have been in office for 4 months and just look at Iraq! republuicans never would have let that happen.
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If Daylight savings time is a good thing, then why not have it year-round?
Exactly, and my fucking alarm clock now as the exact same issue where I have to manually change the time twice and there is no patch for it. I just have to put up with it until I replace it which if it's like my last clock won't be for at least another decade.
Ah, but I need the government to trick my boss into thinking the time for me to come in to work has changed. That's how I get my extra daylight. :)
I don't know about you, but my servers run on the power of cotton candy and happy thoughts. -Anonymous Coward
We'd be missing an hour of time for the rest of human existence.
If you're futureproofing, do it right: 640 million people should be enough for anyone.
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Laughing is so close to crying... :( :)