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Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy
An anonymous reader writes "With the time approaching when we'll be changing our clocks again, the Wall Street Journal is running a timely article on a study done by a UC-Santa Barbara economics professor and a Ph.D. student. The study unambiguously concludes that Daylight Saving Time not only doesn't save any energy, it actually wastes energy and costs more. The study used energy company records from Indiana before and after that state mandated DST for all of its counties, and calculated that the switch cost Indiana citizens $8.6M per year. 'I've never had a paper with such a clear and unambiguous finding as this,' the professor said."
Bruce
Bruce Perens.
Take vitamins.. lot safer than being in the Sun. Do you have a family? Every minute you are in the Sun is another chance that you will get skin cancer and DIE.. then who will take care of your kids? Don't you think it is a bit selfish of you to be endangering your life like that? :)
How we know is more important than what we know.
Yeah, and oxygen is what leads to old age and ultimately 'so called' natural death. So breath less. Breath slower. You only have so many. Make them last. ;)
I wrote this to my congressional representatives last fall:
...
Dear Sir:
Daylight savings time hits hard this time of year.
It was cold and dark when I got up this morning, so the
first thing I did was was turn up the heat and turn on the
lights. That's going to jack up my energy bill for the
month.
Then I drove my son to school. He missed his bus all five
days this week. That's going to jack up my fuel bill for the
month.
Then I dragged myself through another day at work. I don't
function well when I have to get up before dawn.
The people in my family are all diurnal (dI-UR-nal). It
means we sleep when it's dark and wake when it's light. The
problem is that in northern latitudes (like Massachusetts)
the sun rises later in the winter than in the summer.
To compensate for this, we have a scheme called Daylight
Savings Time. Daylight savings shifts our school and work
schedules forward in the summer and back in the winter, to
keep them roughly in sync with the sun. It used to work
pretty well, but congress broke it a couple of years ago:
now it goes too long in the fall and starts too early in the
spring.
Most of the damage that congress does affects me at some
remove, but this--this comes right out of my hide. When I'm
stumbling around in the dark for three weeks next spring,
I'll be thinking of you.
Sincerely,
Don't get me started on how bad exercise is for you.
How we know is more important than what we know.
"Skip DST entirely. No clock changes at all."
Yeah, let's do away with all of this time zone crap too. I think the folks on the other side of the world from me can all go third shift.
I reserve the right to think for myself. Others' opinions are optional. Puppy on lap = typos...not illiteracy.
The other end was extended to include Halloween for safety reasons; kids can go Trick-Or-Treating in daylight.
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This would have been the first post, if I remembered to set my clock for DST.
If you go to one of the local 100-yen stores, you can find this nice little blindfold thingee. With one of those you can sleep in until 3 PM if you want to. I have two -- one is the standard elastic-headband contraption and the other is just a black anime-esque cat which sits on your face all night. More for the novelty value than anything.
Now, while the USD has been falling against the yen recently, I'm going to wager that 100 yen is still less than $8.6 million.
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
Maybe we should just set the clocks so the sun comes up at noon. That way you'll get to see a beautiful sunrise over lunch, it will be nice and bright outside when you get home, and the sun will set sometime after you go to sleep.
And don't get me STARTED on a balanced diet!
You're both wrong!
DST has been lobbied for years by Cat Inc. Think of how many more birds can be killed with an extra hour of daylight!
IMO the extra hour of light is nice when recreating outdoors.
Birthdays are bad as well. Too many will kill you.
Beware of hydrogen hydroxide!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
That would be a really interesting experiment here in Sweden, where the laplanders would then have both the whole summer and the whole winter off from work :)
Damn your friends and their social ways! Why can't they just leave you alone with your faithful petunias?!
Would you like a slice of toast?
Because Daylight Saving Time is a method to control people. Without DST, business will start at 8 or 9, and then quit at 5 or 6. By implementing DST, the government can effectively coerce these businesses to start at 7 or 8, and quit at 4 or 5. If DST was permanent, businesses would gradually go back to what their customers want them to do, and start at 8 or 9 (but will be called 9 or 10). Then the government would have to add another hour to force the businesses back another hour.
Basically, the clock is just a label. If the government stops shifting the clock around, and gives every point in time a constant label, then it just becomes an unbiased way to label the day, and no longer a way to control people.
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- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton