"Orson, go get a jar of daylight from the 72-hour kit"
CNN on Daylight Saving Time:
Lawmakers crafting energy legislation approved an amendment Wednesday to extend daylight-saving time by two months, having it start on the first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November.
"Extending daylight-saving time makes sense, especially with skyrocketing energy costs," said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Michigan, who along with Rep. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, co-sponsored the measure.
"The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use," said Markey, who cited Transportation Department estimates that showed the two-month extension would save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day.
Hmmm, "The more daylight we have..."? Where did the extra daylight come from? We all know that nothing is really "saved" during Daylight Saving Time.
I found this through Sam's Archive, which said:
So they want to extend Daylight Saving Time for two months to save energy. Discussion about this seems to boil down to three major points.
1. Daylight Saving is a stupid idea, which causes huge amounts of hassle for many people twice a year, and doesn't actually save any energy as such.
2. Scrapping - or extending - DST would be unimaginably difficult given the amount of electronic hardware that would need to be modified.
3. Extending DST would supposedly save America 10,000 barrels of oil a day, or 0.05% of the TWENTY MILLION barrels America currently uses.
Seriously, guys. You want to save energy? Here's a hint: PUT AWAY THE CAR KEYS.
~2005|04|08 3:51am
All this talk of Daylight Saving Time led me to a google search to find out more. A couple of major sites on the extremes of the argument are Web Exhibits, which has nothing but praise for DST, and End Daylight Saving Time, which advocates abolishing it entirely.
So I'll throw out a question for everyone: How much difference does it make in your life, both positive and negative, to switch to and from Daylight Saving Time? For example, during the five days immediately following a change, the rate of car wrecks during the morning or evening increases dramatically.
posted by Anonymous @ 11:46 PM
2 Comments:
I like it, it needs to be pushed back 1 week so that it is light in the morning when people wake up. But also remember we are lucky enough to be in the middle of our time zone. Places such as Boston ( from a chat i had with one) at the end of one, so w/o daylight saving they said it gets dark their at 5 to 6. So I say its worth it, i really like the sun and more is good. Plus the more sun people recieve the less likely depression can occur. Alaska has in its school light hours, and light houses so people can go get some light and avoid depression.
If I understand the idea of daylight savings correctly it is a way to make everyone change there daily schedules by one hour so as to have more sunshine time between the time they get home from work and bed. It's a good idea and would save energy (be it ever so little - it still is easier to save it then find more). I think it is a great idea. We could just get up earlier and start our workday earlier without changing our clocks. It makes no difference to me.
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