simply split the difference and leave it at that...
Posted on 03/09/2013 1:23:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Daylight Saving Time starts at 2:00 AM tomorrow morning and there are increasing calls to end the practice. Part of the reason are the health effects, which are serious. And then there's the extra energy usage that we can't afford in this day and age.
From LA Times:
Once again, the oft-dreaded daylight saving time change is upon us. The day that the clocks "spring" forward also inevitably takes a spring out of our step.
Sure, the birds seem to chirp a little later, the sunlight shines a little less as we drag ourselves through the morning routine. But as study after study has shown, that seems to be about the only highlight in those first days after the change.
According to the Better Sleep Council, a nonprofit organization supported by mattress manufacturers, 61% of U.S. adults say daylight saving time affects their work the Monday after the changeover.
In a survey of 1,038 adults, the immediate effects of losing an hour of shuteye affected everything from people's moods to eating and driving habits.
About 29% of those surveyed said it takes a week to adjust to the change, with adults between 18 and 34 needing the most time to get with the new program. (But let's face it: those at the younger end of that range may struggle to get out of bed regardless.)
But don't just take the mattress industry's word for it. A number of studies over the last 13 years have highlighted the range of health consequences of people ill-prepared to start their morning routine just 60 minutes earlier.
According to a 2008 Swedish study, there's a 6% to 10% increase in heart attacks in the first three workdays after the start of daylight saving time.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
simply split the difference and leave it at that...
Why do people only complain about DST in the spring?
What about the Metric Leisure Week.
"The Metric Leisure Week will be composed of three days. Yes, only three days. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will become one day known as Mwensday or in decabet: Mwen. Thursday, Friday and Saturday will become Saturthurs, or in decabet: Turth. And Sunday, our traditional day of rest, will remain Sunday. Three days: Mwen, Thurth and Sunday."
I seriously doubt there is an significant energy savings from DST. During the summer months in hot areas of the country air conditioners are the biggest user of electricity and DST has no effect on their use. Many businesses keep lights on 24/7 and the time on the clock has nothing to do with lighting like street lights that are on a dawn to dusk system. Back in the day when electric lights were the main use for electricity and were shut off totally at night there might have been some savings by tinkering with the clock, but I can’t see any reason DST would have any savings in energy these days.
One of the very few ideas from Ben Franklin that turns out to be stupid in actual practice.
Instead of jerking the time of day around twice a year, how about in the summer everybody just goes to work an hour earlier?
Frankly, I miss the summer evenings.
By the way, if saving on electricity is supposed to be one of the reasons for DST, haven’t we already fixed that by outlawing incandescent bulbs? This is beginning to sound like one of those “green” things, that can never be fixed, no matter what we do.
It’s harder to adjust in the spring. You have to get up an hour earlier to get up at the same time.
Because that’s when it starts. When it ends in the fall there is no reason to complain anymore.
See the link in post 22.
I’m in IT, so don’t change it...do you know what a pain it would be to have to make all of the OS patches?
HELL NO!!!! I’m so happy when it gets here, and we have more daylight. There’s actually daylight after you get home from work.
The best thing that ever happened was the year we had it all year round!!
Like you don’t have every OS in the world that doesn’t adjust.
If you don’t, consider it another slice of job security.
Daylight Savings Time comes from Ben Franklin, who when he was in Europe noted that people would “work by candlelight and sleep by sunshine” yet “complain about the costs of candlewax and burning tallow”
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. It’s more than a motto. It works. Rising with the sun saves money.
I’m on your side. Getting dark at 1645 is crapola.
Messing around with the clocks complicates real time computer controlled systems. Spring isn’t nearly as bad as Fall but they both keep some up at night fiddling with it.
This is the one energy conservation program that I find the least objectionable. Most of the year I get up before dawn anyway. It doesn't bother me.
The limitations on DST and double daylight savings time (DDST) should be determined by whether large numbers of children are going to be crossing the street in the dark: on their way to school in the morning, on their way home in the afternoon, and Trick-or-Treating on Halloween. Right now DST ends the first weekend after Halloween, and that's the reason.
No, we should dump non daylight savings time.
No they don’t. All the studies show that DST has no effect. The fact of the matter is when people are awake, regardless of what the clock says and where the sun is, they have the lights on. All the excuses for DST are lies, it’s stupid, accomplishes nothing. All it accomplishes is making you change your clock twice a year because the government said so.
“DST destroyed the drive in movie industry.”
Air conditioning killed the drive in movie industry.
It killed camping too.
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