DST destroyed the drive in movie industry.
What a load of crap. During the summer months, every electric light in the Northern Hemisphere burns one less hour because of daylight savings time. This comes at a time when electric grids are already heavily burdened by air conditioners. If anything, we should be extending the use of daylight savings time.
During World War II, the British were using “double daylight savings time” and we could do it too. Sometime around May 23, we set the clocks forward an additional hour and set them back sometime around July 18.
DST is the perfect liberal program. Gives you something (extra daylight at end of day), for nothing (less daylight in the morning).
Just keep it Miller time!
Yes, we should dump DST.
Every year back and forth, pick a time and go with it. Let us stop the ever changing clock and pretending that we get more light. It is the same. The sun only shines so many hours a day no matter what. Moving the clocks does nothing.
This is one of those “Read It And Weep” stories and threads. Multiple examples of why we’re doomed so far and many, many more to come.
Of course, he offers absolutely nothing to back up this absurd assertion.
If you wake and rise by the clock, then you use an hour's less artificial light in the evening, and typically NOT an hour's more light in the morning.
And lights are the vast majority of home energy use.
It doesn't affect stoves, clothes dryers, etc. one way or the other.
You could argue that the savings are not worth the cost (extra accidents? don't know if that's true) but to argue that there are no savings is pure bunk.
Don’t you mean Daylight Stupid Time?
Inflation just eats up the savings anyway.
I would prefer 24-7 DST. If you live near a time-line it is hell. Dark in the “morning” is fine with me.
Each year there would be either one or two non-month days for festivals, celebration, and relaxation to make up the slack.
simply split the difference and leave it at that...
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.
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?