The basic concept is that daylight savings time pushes more daylight back into hours in which we have more activities, thus reducing the amount of energy needed. However, I would argue that beginning about the end of October or so, we start waking up in the dark and using that energy we would’ve used in the evening in the morning instead, thus offsetting any gains and rendering the whole thing moot.
There’s also a small lobby, backed by candy manufacturers, that argued the change to make Halloween trick-or-treating safer.
re your Daylight Savings time comments.
I wish they wouldn’t Fall Back at all. It gets dark at 5 o’clock.
When am I supposed to walk my dog???
Have They given a thought to that?
Everything I need to know I learn on Free Republic. Two days ago I learned to my horror that first class postage is 41 cents. I’d been using my 39 cent stamps. Apparently the post office didn’t notice ... I haven’t gotten anything back.
And today I’m sitting at the computer, annoyed because it didn’t change my time and thinking I had an hour to spend on this thread before church and, well, you know the rest.
I had to leave and hustle.