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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
Lots of things are a pain in the ass. US measurement system, silly date notation systems, IPv4, the two party system, etc. Unfortunately none of those are going anywhere anytime soon.
Indeed, but there's literally about zero effort to just not fall back. This is low hanging fruit on the pain-in-the-ass fruit tree.
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
Must be rough having first world problems.
All problems in first world nations are first world problems (by definition), but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be remedied.
Your argument basicly is "a measurement system is fine if you are used to it". The same arguments can be said for metric units, and they are also true. I can double, triple and quadruple metric units the same way than imperial units. I know that my body temperature should be somewhere between 36 C and 37 C, and that I have to drive carefully if the temperature falls below zero. There are exactly zero arguments for imperial units if you are not used to them. There is no reason to learn them now if you grew up with metric units. You don't gain anything (beside talking points) by knowing imperial units additionally to the metric ones.