It’s Daylight Saving Time Again
jewel March 9th, 2008
Oh joy. I’m not a fan of this Daylight Saving Time thing. Aside from being skeptical that is saves any energy, I end up feeling short on sleep for the first several days of it. Right, we’re suppose to just go to sleep an hour earlier. Well. it works on paper, I guess. All I see, come Monday morning, is a whole bunch of people on the roads who are feeling more short on sleep than they usually are on Monday mornings. Everyone is on auto-pilot. DST is one thing I would rejoice in getting rid of.
edited — It’s “Daylight Saving Time”, not “Savings”. For some reason, it always comes out with the extra ‘s’. *sigh*
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It’s especially silly now when we spend more months of the year IN DST that in EST (it’s now, what, March – November???). Why not just make the whole year like that and get rid of the concept altogether. I thought the whole idea was to give farmers more daylight evening hours so they don’t have to adjust their sleep patterns (which they do anyway, it’s just not as obvious). It was good for the 1800s, but not now — we’re not quite the agrarian society were we back then.
From what I remember learning, it’s never been all that convenient to farmers because they work with the sun’s schedule, anyway. And adding the time change means that they have to change their market schedules, which can be a bit inconvenient.
I think it was officially adopted during WWI to save energy, which it may very well have back then. However nowadays, it isn’t just the lights. Our modern conveniences – air conditioning, refrigerators, tv’s computers, all us the same amount of power no matter when we run them, so this whole DST thing makes much less sense now.
And, yeah, what’s with this extra month or two of DST, anyway? It’s bad enough they brutally take away one of our weekend hours, but now they’re keeping it longer! Damn government.
This guy even points out further that energy isn’t being saved at all:
http://astroprofspage.com/archives/1567
So it really is a waste of “time”.
My objection to the whole time thing is that we DST for about 65% of the year, while standard time is only effect for 35%. By definition, doesn’t “standard” mean something that exists the majority of the time?
Hmmm… good question.