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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.
UTC with NTP... that's the way to go. Goodbye local time forever!
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
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
I will miss it, as well many people in the north.
Some things you should probably consider:
1) No one is trying to trick mother natures, if you think it's about that, then you are fucking stupid and STFU
2) There is no indicator that, overall, money is wasted
3) "In a modern world where clocks are set by the atom "
This underscores how ignorant you small minded you are. It has nothing to dodo the the accuracy of a clock.
More daylight in the evening is beneficial and enjoyable.
Yo do know we live on a globe, right? and that northern states are impacted more by the shifting about of daylight? And there aren't a lot of places that get an exact amount of day and night every year? and that not everyone gets to pick there work hours? and people do more outside in the evening then in the morning? People use more electricity for lighting in the evening then they do in the morning?
Most people get up just in times to shower, eat and then go to work. Not a lot of relaxing hang around tyime. and if there where it would be colder anyways
Bunch of short sighted morons.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
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.
Doesn't sort well.
20130308 sorts perfectly. That's why, I suspect, that the standard way to express the date is "2013-03-08" (see the 1988 ISO 8601 standard), as it also sorts perfectly.
For that matter, date+time as 20130308120000 sorts perfectly. I use it in all my database work. Throw in some separators, viz. 2013-03-08 12:00:00 and it's perfectly human readable and makes sense right out of the gate, most significant to least.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
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.
This article just in time for the yearly "Should we keep DST? No, but we'll keep it anyway" cycle.
I was starting to get worried that we weren't going to get to have this little twice-a-year bitchfest here on Slashdot this Spring.
Some traditions are important. They help keep you grounded and define your culture.
I am not a crackpot.
As for the farmers -- the people whom this was originally meant to benefit
Farmers ignore daylight saving time as they have to deal with animals who are governed by the sun and not a clock. Daylight saving time was instituted so there would be more sunlight in the evening and therefore lower resource use. Read a bit of ,a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#History">history. Notice there is no mention of farmers as a reason for DST.