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Daylight Savings Time Increases Energy Use In Indiana
enbody writes "The Freakonomics Blog at NYTimes.com reports on a study of Indiana energy use for daylight savings time showing an increase in energy use of 1%. 'The dataset consists of more than 7 million observations on monthly billing data for the vast majority of households in southern Indiana for three years. Our main finding is that — contrary to the policy's intent — D.S.T. increases residential electricity demand.'" Maybe that's just from millions of coffee makers being pressed into extra duty.
I still have a number of computers that are running older operating systems for which there is no patch. The best thing to do about this ridiculous time change stuff is just to put it back the way it was.
Of COURSE daylight savings stuff changes how much electricity you use.
Afterall, if they give us an extra hour of daytime then your appliances are running for a full 25 hours a day.
you have to run all your appliances for that extra hour every single day all winter.
liqbase
Whoops, sorry, that was supposed to be 'Pedantic-Man', with a dash. How embarrassing.
I thought the change of DST rule was to create IT jobs in adopting the old system, and troubleshooting the mess introduced by the old rules, etc....No?
Anyway, every time operation should be done in UTC in the core especially when it has to deal with cross timezone operations and globalization.
On the other hand, It's stupid to see Windows can only handle 2 active rules before Vista at any given time, on the other hand *nix and Vista can have define unlimited rules given a period of the time. I couldn't imagine how one would devise a local time using the DST rule of time in Windows XP, probably revert to reinvent-the-wheel?...luckily I don't have to deal with anything like that yet.
You mean a hyphen, something that shouldn't be there either. Nice try, so-called "Pedantic Man."
Sadly, I have no hyphen on my keyboard, and no desire to go poking through a character map to find one, so I had to use a dash. Check the ASCII character. :)
Don't feel bad - I *am* a professional!
We need the extra hour of daylight for growing our Fall crops, so leave DST alone.
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
What do you mean by you like? Didn't you hear? We're all supposed to conserve energy for The Earth. It's not about what anyone likes, it's about sacrificing our comfort, our prosperity, and our way of life to benefit The Earth. The Earth demands sacrifice!
Now, start listening to your Leaders. They know what choices you should make. They say you should conserve energy. For The Earth. Any choice that uses more energy is Bad. Any choice that uses less is Good. There are no exceptions for productivity and no consideration for humanity. Just use less. Obey.
(The Leaders are exempt and may use all the energy they wish.)
The Bush administration, with
its fine misunderestimated mathematical minds,
who also calculated that if Osama Bin Laden
was hiding on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border,
we should go defeat him in Baghdad.
Oh and the same minds who calculated that
even though co2 lets in visible-light and ultraviolet
energy from the Sun and reflects and traps in infra-red
energy that radiates back off the Earth, it won't cause
global warming, because that would reduce oil
sale revenues.
It's honestly quite a shocker that this cunningly
devised plan didn't work.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Decay! Decay! Decay! -Helium
When you enter DST, you jump ahead one hour, skipping completely over it. That hour is being saved until you switch back to standard time, where it is then used up.
"I'm not sure I like the fugnutish tone you used in your post!" -RogL (608926)-
That just can't be.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Daylight Saving Time. Saving, singular, not Savings, plural.
As you were.
Also it's not a "safety deposit box". It is a box, where you deposit things, kept in a safe. It's a safe deposit box.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
o I've never worked out where it's coming from....
It comes from your bill :-)
Yes.
Yes it is.
You should try that, but add in the benefit of 12 hour *swing* shifts. You get to not only experience the joy of never seeing the sun, with the added benefit of constantly changing your sleep pattern every few days. I assure you, the combination is much better than either separately. I love my job.
Excuse me while I go find a sturdy ceiling beam and a less-than sturdy chair.
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
Calling winter time "Daylight Losing Time" wouldn't be as appealing.
These days, it's called Catholicism.
Draughts? No wonder daylight saving has a checkered history!
Or maybe some of that foamy tape stuff in his door/window frames would help fix the problem?
When was the last time you cleaned your coffee maker?
People clean their coffee makers?
And get off my fucking lawn.
I leave my car idling all night so it's ready in the morning too. Sometimes I get headaches and feel dizzy when I go into the garage though.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
You lucky bastard!
When I were young, I were happy if I didn't have ice in the well in the morning, and that were on the hottest day of the year.
Atheism is a non-prophet organisation
It's good people thought of the children here in Scandinavia. I fondly remember only going to school for one hour a day in winter. The problem then comes in summer when we had to go to school from 4 am until midnight to make up for the time lost in winter. But, luckily it was still light when I walked home from school. And the poor kids who went out in the dark to play in winter... All dead. Taken by Grendel or the Fenris wolf.
Only a white man would believe that cutting a foot off the top of a blanket and sewing on to the bottom would make a longer blanket.
When I was taking a writing class in college, the night before the assignments were due I would post them to Slashdot as anonymous coward, along with a flamebait post title. Sure, they were always off-topic and rightfully modded as such, but eventually some pedantic grammar nazi would come by and fix all my mistakes for me.