I guess you have never worked a night shift on the night you set the clocks back and end up working and extra hour.
The bottom line is it does nothing to save energy, it is laughable it is part of energy policy. It misleads and hinders efforts to start real conservation. I really don't see what the problem is. I have relatives in three
different time zones so I'm used to considering time as "relative" and making adjustments where needed when I phone them. I also have email friends as far away as Japan and Australia. same problem. If you can handle time zones, daylight savings time is trivial. Some parts of the world actually have DST changes of 30 minutes, others bump up a full two hours.
Last night I made the switch in 30 minutes on my current stable of 13 digital and analog time keepers. Most of the time was spend wondering if I had missed anything. My cell phone and computer took care of themselves thanks to automatic software updates. My television and DVR have a DST in an on/off switch which can be cnanged without even touching the hours display itself. My DTC was just a timezone change, just about as simple. The rainbird sprinkler timer in the basement, well I just leave it on DST year around.
Are we getting lazy, or do we just want something to complain about. I detect grumpy old men here.
DT
--- On Sun, 3/14/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Silly Time (Was: Messier Marathon 2010 - secondary date) To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Sunday, March 14, 2010, 1:16 PM On 14 Mar 2010, at 11:58, Joe Bauman wrote:
I thoroughly agree, Jay. I think we should shack up with Arizona and do away with what Patrick calls Daylight Silly Time.
Or "Daylight Saving Death" as some call it, referring to the deaths caused each year by the switch.
And I love it when folks say it saves electricity, ignoring studies showing that what is saved in having lights on less is more than made up for by increased use of air conditioners.
Actually I've no problem with Silly Time if we'd just stick with it. Real Time or Silly Time: Just pick one and stay with it. No more switching back and forth.
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