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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."
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.
I never bought the "energy saving" crap anyway. Compared to what they were spending on the Iraq war, the figures they presented were pathetically low, especially given the effort to change it. All I had to do was look at all of the hardware clocks at home to realize what the real reason was: electronic warfare. Anyone that didn't pony up large chunks of change to the DST consultants had to deal with the embarassment (at a minimum) of having their clocks be out-of-whack for 3 full weeks. I'd imagine that most of the DST consultants were American, too. Let's add up all the consulting bills to fix this articificial problem to find out what the real economic driver was.
I despise the bastards who came up with this foolish idea. I wish that people were intelligent enough to realize that their government has once again lied to them about their motives. They should be demanding results for such an expensive implementation, and there is a conspicuous lack thereof. I, for one, can see through this transparent American malevolence. I only wish Canada would declare war so I could do something about it.
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If you need an alarm clock to get up in the morning you're not going to bed early enough. And don't argue that you 'can't go to bed earlier.' If you live in Seattle and go to bed in the winter 'early' at 9pm it's already midnight in New York, so just live on New York time instead :)
That already happens.. it's called summer. The only thing DST accomplishes is instead of having the sun go down at 8pm during the summer, you want it to go down at 9pm. Because 3 hours of after-work daylight isn't enough... sheesh.
First off, if business change, you STILL HAVE TO CHANGE WHAT TIME YOU GO TO WORK.
Second, every business may be running on differents noons. making business meeting, email server and many other things you small mind can't comprehend, nearly impossible to manage.
Third, "it's supposed to be the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky."
Are you really stupid, or do you think the world revolves around you? Noon in portland Oregon would be different then Noon in L.A. California.
Your definition of noon stems from when people pretty much lived in the same village, and all there business was done in the same village.
In other words, it's 'quaint'
As far as this time change saving energy, or even just moving people off peak(which would also be good) we won't really know for a year. This artical is clearly biased.
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How many bullshit telnet root exploits have you patched your Solaris machines for this year?