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Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving?
Daniel_Stuckey writes "In politics, health, and academia, there are plenty of detractors that say daylight saving might not be worth saving. One vocal opponent is Missouri State Representative Delus Johnson, who wants to end the watch and clock switchery altogether. In short, he says we should spring forward this one last time, without ever falling back. He wants Missouri – and other states willing to join a pact – to permanently adopt daylight saving time and call it Standard Time. He's sure that it'll increase economic development in the later part of the year; giving people a little more daylight to do their Black Friday shopping. Matthew J. Kotchen and Laura E. Grant at the National Bureau of Economic Research have argued that DST has had adverse effects on energy spending. They calculate some extra $10-16 million spent by Indiana due to time changes. Their research concluded it's probably a much bigger loss in other states. A year ago, Motherboard's Kelly Bourdet reported on a health study that concluded DST might actually kill you. Chances of heart-attack were stated to increase by 10 percent on the days following the spring change, and to decrease by 10% after gaining the hour in the fall."
There's even a We The People petition about it.
Why is it so important to have sunlight in the morning, give me evening sunlight that I can enjoy after work. I don't need sunlight for my morning deuce.
Knowledge = Power
P= W/t
t=Money
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
No! It's a royal pain in the ass. Get rid of it!
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
No.
I can safely say moving your clocks is idiotic. If you want to work 8-4 or 9-5, it really don't matter at all. Just pick one and make it happen.
Twelve AM was set up to be defined as the middle of the night; 12 PM the middle of the day. (Or 00:00/12:00 if you prefer the 24 hour clock). Don't like how dark that makes the usual active hours during the Winter? Fine - switch the hours that businesses are active. But please stop arbitrarily changing time-keeping.
Happy people make bad consumers.
only the US Govt thinks you can cut one foot off the top of a blanket and sew it on to the bottom of a blanket will make the blanket longer
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
The farmer has the same amount of daylight to use regardless of what hour it is labelled...
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
If you need more light, change your hours
Are you REALLY so ignorant of reality that you believe that ANYWHERE NEAR a majority of people have this option?
The VAST MAJORITY of people in the modern world DO NOT GET the privilege (that you apparently enjoy) of setting their own work schedule. MOST OF US are TOLD by our employers what time work starts, and what time it ends (along with how long we're allowed to eat at lunch).
Having the extra hours of light in the day, AFTER your boss LETS you go home, is very nice, whereas having it in the morning is useless, as there's nothing much productive you can do with before you have to report to work: at the end of the day it extends a contiguous period of daylight wherein you can be productive for an additional hour, in the morning it's a self-contained hour, which is bordered by sleep and work, which is substantially LESS productive).
-AC
I can't think of anyone who couldn't find a job with a different work schedule.
In the US, we currently have a large number of people who can't find a job with ANY work schedule, so I think it might be a bit harder to find another job with reasonable pay in your field with a different work schedule than you think. If it were easy, those jobs would already be taken by those who don't have any job.
>"Representative Delus Johnson, who wants to end the watch and clock switchery altogether. In short, he says we should spring forward this one last time, without ever falling back. "
I have been saying this for many, many years. Go on daylight savings and then NEVER CHANGE AGAIN. Give us light when we can *USE* it in the winter.
The second best solution is to go on standard time and NEVER CHANGE AGAIN.
But remaining on this INCREDIBLY STUPID system of changing time twice a year is just INSANE. It does NOTHING to save energy. In fact, it does almost nothing positive at all. Yet it causes tons of lost productivity, sleep problems, irritation, confusion, and inconvenience.