Posted on 02/06/2007 11:44:25 AM PST by snarkpup
I wonder if anyone has studied the what affect the extra hour of daylight has on the global climate?
Maybe if we moved it back two hours we could cause enough cooling to counteract the human induced warming?
But it doesn't. Macroeconomically speaking, between the fact that it's now more likely to be dark in the morning when people are getting ready for work and the fact that day or night most people have a light on in whatever room they're occupying nothing about electrical usage changes due to DST.
Donate the tp to people in Zimbabwe. I saw a post today that tp's so expensive, they are using maize cobs now.
I think it's pretty cool that the Government is Powerful enough to control time.
I would like to propose "Weekend Savings Time."
We turn the clocks back an hour every Friday night at 9 PM, then turn them ahead an hour every Monday morning at 9 AM.
She hasn't used it yet? My stash is gone.
you got me, I actually laughed out loud.
Back when Amelia Earhart was flying around the world, the island she was trying to land on (Howland Island) was on a 1/2 hour shifted clock. The Navy ship a few miles off Howland was using a clock referenced to Hawaii time and was on an hour shift. (Ship time was 1100, island time 1130). I forget what clock Earhart was using.
The ship had higher freq. communications and would attempt to contact Earhart at 15 min. and 45 min. past the hour, while the island had low freq. communications and would try contacts at the hour and half hour.
Earhart had to switch between the frequencies at the proper times, plus trying to use a tracking beacon frequency..
They figure the misscomunication of the time was one of the numerous problems that led to Earhart missing Howland Island. Based on the Earhart investigation everything military and shipping, etc. went over to GMT.
Oh, please! Just like the Y2K non-event.
I disagree with you. It takes less light to function during the 'daylight' hours, unless you're a cat.
--Move the time 1/2 hour, then leave it alone!--
Each town should be able to set their own time - just like it was done by our founding fathers ...
"12 hours?
It takes a lot of time to take a full backup of the machine, especially if the tape drives are busy. Then there's a patch and a reboot. It takes a Solaris box with lots of memory and disk a long time to reboot. Then there's system and user testing.
So the actual patch doesn't take that long, it's all the other stuff.
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!! Gimme a break, everything would be off an hour at worst. As it was, my answering machine was off an hour for 6 months, the world as we know it, survived.
A friend of mine had to deal with this change... It ended up cascading through his entire system.
That's fabulous! (also nice looking pair of shoes for 17 bucks.)
Turned on lights are turned on lights are turned on lights. While it's true that during daylight hours I probably don't "need" all of the wattage from my lights like I do at night I still need some of it and therefore they're turned on and burning just as much electricity. Maybe if every light you've got is hooked up to a dimmer switch and you're very dilligent about only turning them as much as you need you'd be burning less electricity during daylight, but that's simply not the general macro-economic case. The macro-economic case is that lights are either on or they're off and if the room is occupied they're probably on, day or night.
what you said.
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