Posted on 11/04/2018 5:02:56 AM PST by NOBO2012
If you don’t get home from work until 6pm, and the lawn takes two hours to mow, when do you want that hour of sunlight?
If dinner and dishes take until 7:30pm, and you want to go for a bike ride or a walk, when do you want that hour of daylight?
I unapologetically love Daylight Savings time.
“Well he wrote those very words in his autobiography. So it’s not a myth.”
The purpose of Daylight Savings Time is to be more economical with fuel (whatever that fuel is), which is why the United States instituted it during the oil crisis in the early 70’s.
In his time, Franklin did the math on fuel consumption. It was not written as a joke. His whole life was spent in coming up with better ways of doing things, including the Franklin Stove, where heat would be pushed into the house, instead of up the chimney, again saving fuel (wood).
“183 nights between 20 March and 20 September times 7 hours per night of candle usage equals 1,281 hours for a half year of candle usage. Multiplying by 100,000 families gives 128,100,000 hours by candlelight. Each candle requires half a pound of tallow and wax, thus a total of 64,050,000 pounds. At a price of thirty sols per pounds of tallow and wax (two hundred sols make one livre tournois), the total sum comes to 96,075,000 livre tournois. An immense sum, that the city of Paris might save every year.”
Daylight savings time was in effect WAY before the 70’s oil crisis.
Pain in the neck.
Stay on DST and leave it there.
All i know is it now going to get dark before 6 p.m. and that sucks. I’d rather have an extra hour at time than in the morning all year.
And, the extra energy used during the year will result in more regulations on plastic bags, straws, etc.
That scares me, putting it in the hands of the California Democratic Party, aka the Legislature. Those pinheads will probably move us 1/2 hour ahead to "split the difference", or really screw the pooch and move us to Eastern Time, so they can be on the same time as their fellow travelers in New York and Washington.
“183 nights between 20 March and 20 September times 7 hours per night of candle usage equals 1,281 hours for a half year of candle usage. “
Anyway the DST assumption are idiotic, typical of any do-good-and-ignore-unintended-consequences bureaucratic scheme. Lighting accounts for a negligible part of total energy usage, so (supposedly) saving 1 h/day accounts for even less. DST brings hypothetical and undemonstrable gains (because many more factors are much more important, like energy efficiency due to technology improvements, GDP increase, habits change,...) while imposing massive inconvenience to society and individuals.
That will happen regardless.
“I wish we’d just pick one and leave it there.”
DITTOS!! It makes no sense to change to “standard” time for just 4 months. PICK ONE AND LEAVE IT!
Same here Sam
I AM IN A TIME LOOP.
EVERY TIME MY CLOCK REACHES 2:00 am, IT RESETS TO 1:00 am.
I AM IN A TIME LOOP.
EVERY TIME MY CLOCK REACHES 2:00 am, IT RESETS TO 1:00 am.
I AM IN A TIME LOOP.
EVERY TIME MY CLOCK REACHES 2:00 am, IT RESETS TO 1:00 am.
I AM IN A TIME LOOP.
EVERY TIME MY CLOCK REACHES 2:00 am, IT RESETS TO 1:00 am.
I AM IN A TIME LOOP.
EVERY TIME MY CLOCK REACHES 2:00 am, IT RESETS TO 1:00 am.
And I deserved it.
I just hope I do not show up to work 1 hour early.
Works for me. I’m retired and can more easily do that
than when I owned and ran my business.
I’m retired too. Not sure why I even bother with the clock in the bedroom at all!
The only time I use the digital clock in my BR, is when I set the alarm to go to PSU-Hershery Hospital/Medical Center (Hershey, PA) from York (PA) at 4am, to get to a 7:30am app’t, or procedure/operation. Otherwise, I don’t bother with it.
You are half right. The is no such thing as "Daylight Savings Time". There is only one "s" in Daylight Saving Time.
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