Posted on 11/01/2014 11:14:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Back in 1784, hanging out in Paris and heady with Enlightenment, Benjamin Franklin had an idea. Struck by the fact that Parisians were sleeping during sunlight hours and then staying up late at night by candlelight, he calculated the number of candles that were being wasted -- and came up with a very impressive number, 64 million pounds worth of them. Franklin therefore jokingly proposed a massive schedule change, noting that a fortune could be saved through "the economy of using sunshine instead of candles," and even suggested at one point that perhaps cannons be fired at sunrise to get everybody out of bed.
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The paper, published in 2011 in The Review of Economics and Statistics by Matthew Kotchen of Yale and Laura Grant of the University of California-Santa Barbara, took advantage of what the researchers dubbed a "natural experiment" with the effect of daylight saving time in the state of Indiana --
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So what caused daylight saving to apparently backfire (rather than backlight)? "In the spring, you are basically making people wake up in the early morning, the coldest time of day, when they might turn up their heat," explains Yale's Kotchen. "And in the summer, if you take an hour of sunlight and you move it from the morning and put it in the evening, people are more likely to be running their air conditioner harder in the evening." That's because heat from the sun builds up over the course of the day, making that particular hour of sunlight hotter than it would have been if it occurred in the morning rather than the evening. So the "Benjamin Franklin effect" -- people using less artificial lighting -- turns out to be overwhelmed by heating and cooling choices.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I agree!
It is an antiquated practice in the Twenty First Century.
It would obviously be possible for people and businesses and schools... to adjust their own schedules for the seasons without state intervention. Oh, but wait, that would require independent thinking and taking personal responsibility.
I’d prefer if there were no time zones.
Or Mr Burns and his sun blocking device!
Change the school day, then.
Better yet, let us get rid of these inefficient, backward government indoctrination centers that we call the public schools.
Just give parent vouchers and let them pick their own school or method.
Old Indian Joe often remarked that the”White man is crazy if he thinks he can cut one foot off the end of a blanket and sew it on the other end and have more blanket”.
I am not going to post how I save on high summertime gasoline prices buy buying in the winter and storing it in sparkletts bottles in my garage Because i never and am not doing it
I like to set mine back a few hours early just to be a rebel. Just set them back. Standard time feels good.
They did that crap back in the late 60’s early 70’s my folks hated it they would come later than the lil kids on the block they just shut the place down after that
Before Daylight Savings Time existed I’m guessing schools just opened an hour after sunrise no matter what time it was. Imagine that. LOL.
Yep...every pay check is “trick” for me, “treat” for them. F-em!! I wonder why the liberals haven’t tried to make the candy “free” yet!!
:)
I feel the same when I hear appeals for food donations. I think, food stamps not enough for you? It's always, "Gimme gimme gimme." Never enough.
Soon as win the lottery...
Who’s GDP per person is highest?
The author and I can’t cover all the compelling reasons for daylight savings.
Before electric lighting, I can see the possible logic in DST, but afterwards there is no logic.
Be careful what you wish for!
I was talking with a friend yesterday who lives in St. Clair Shores (suburb of Detroit) and he complained how vans from Detroit would park at the end of his block and unload their kids. They don't do that anymore because they've moved into his neighborhood..........LOL!
I’d like to turn it back to about 1980.
considering it was first used in this nation in 1918 your “guess” may be right on- by why use facts? LMFAO...
I know what you mean. Maybe the best we can get is, “Apres moi, le deluge.”
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