Posted on 04/23/2005 2:59:18 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
Saturday, April 23, 2005 - Cranky schoolchildren, electronic chaos and increased sales of double espressos -- those are just some of the effects that would ripple through Americans' lives under a plan moving through Congress to extend daylight-saving time by two months a year.
Under the plan that was approved by the House of Representatives and sent to the Senate, California and other states would "spring forward" in March rather than April and "fall back" in November rather than October.
"It's gonna be chaos, man," said Viken Fermanian, owner of Salco Services, an electronics repair shop in Granada Hills, predicting there would be no easy fix to the daylight-saving time change hard-wired into everything from wristwatches to VCRs.
While computer software can be reprogrammed to accommodate different dates, hardware presents a trickier problem.
"The worst thing that'll happen is (the device will) change the time for you, but it'll be the wrong time. If Congress changes the date, you'll get every electronics manufacturer scrambling to change their processors," he said.
But supporters of the plan -- tucked into a sweeping federal energy bill approved by the House this week -- note that any drawbacks would be outweighed by the energy savings provided by maximizing daylight hours.
"It's the most painless way to save any energy at all, and it has some other advantages: It reduces crime and traffic accidents," said Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Sherman Oaks.
Sherman and other supporters cite Department of Transportation studies from the mid-1970s that found such a move could save the equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil each day that daylight-saving time is extended.
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If we're to live in this jungle of socialist bullsh*t then lets just go on zulu time and call it a day.........:o)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Indiana does not participate either.
Indiana is divided into two time zones. Only the Eastern Time Zone portion of Indiana does not do DST. The Central time zone part does. That way, for six months of the year, all of Indiana is operating in the same time zone, so to speak.
My Grandfather Sills an Indiana farmer solved the problem.
He had two clocks in the kitchen. One for city time (CDT) and one for his farm time (CST).
I think we should have one day of Standard (not Daylight) time - every February 29. This would be a bone tossed to those who do not want any Daylight time. Note this should apply ony when February 29 falls on a 4th Sunday :)
I think it is great that our elected representatives are able to give us more daylight. I knew they had a purpose.
Sunlight is good, Kalifornia and darkness is bad......
Ummm... if you're not a morning person, then you should love this proposal, unless you hate the sunlight...
As a practical matter, that would work only if businesses also agreed to start one hour earlier. Believe me, I'd love to go to work at 6 AM if I could.
Preach it!
I hate daylight savings time.
It is hell if you are in agriculture. You either have to rewrite all the schedules or have people hanging around doing nothing as the cows don't care about the stupid clock.
Now that I could live with.
I saw that link after I posted! Thanks to both of you!
I've incorporated DST into firmware for a few products. The code is surprisingly simple, actually. That said, changing the rules at this point in the game would be really dumb, annoying, and assinine.
What we need to do is shift the extra daylight itself a few months, so we could average 12 hours of daylight a day.
Actually, at the Time Museum in Rockford, I saw a clock that was designed to give 12 hours of daylight a day. Daytime and nighttime hours were different lengths, set by separate adjustable pendula.
"Maybe other states should consider defiance."
The Navajo reservation goes w/DST but most of Indiana does not.
Fine, then you move to the Congo, Indonesia, or some other equatorial rain forest. Or Somalia. Maybe Brazil or Ecuador. Your pick.
I'm a city guy,so the idea if chickens knowing what time it is on a clock in relation to laying eggs FREAKS ME OUT!
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