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Tonight is the night we all set our clocks ahead an hour in observance of the strange springtime ritual known as Daylight Saving Time. Until last year Daylight time began on the first Sunday in April. Thanks to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, DST now begins on the second Sunday in March and lasts until the first weekend in November.
The dates were changed "to save energy". Saving energy, in fact, was the reason for the institution of DST back in 1918, when standardized time zones were established. While energy savings may have been achieved when incandescent lighting was a major use of electricity, modern day energy use patterns indicate that DST actually increases energy use (warning: 34 pdf pages of energy use analysis).
Daylight Saving Time trivia: Contrary to popular belief, DST was not first proposed by Ben Franklin. While living in Paris Ben wrote a humorous essay suggesting it would be easier to set the clocks ahead than it would be to get Parisians to get an early start on the day. The real father of DST was William Willett, an Englishman, who proposed the idea to promote health and happiness.
The time change brings with it a handy reminder from the FDNY and the Office of Emergency Managment to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
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Duh Huh? Typical stupid governing body that doesn't really think.
If the time to cut off daylight saving time is based on daylight around the sun, so why do these idiots cut it off and revert to standard time on the first Sunday in November. Which would be approximately fifty two days before the winter solstice (giving them the benefit of the doubt.) Fifty Two days after that winter solstice would put the time to go back to daylight savings time somewhere in the second, or the most, the third week in February. DUH? HUH?
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Great response Flanny. That sure solved the mystery.
The whole notion of it originally being for farmers seems dubious, since they were in theory getting up with the sun anyway, so what does the artificial artifice of timekeeping even do there?
Daylight savings time does nothing except shift power consumption to the morning, cause vehicle accidents, disrupt people's sleep cycles, and make politicians look like they are actually doing something to save energy.
A recent study in Indiana which recently adopted the idiotic time shift shows that power consumption actually increased and made the Hoosiers pay about $8 million more in power costs (ironically one Indiana legislator said it would save ratepayers $7 million annually), not to mention the environmental impact of more power demand and the loss of productivity of people who are adjusting to a new sleep cycle. You can find a the actual report here in pdf format. Also, a National Bureau of Standards report from 1976 revealed there was no energy savings.
The only people, other than energy suppliers like ConEd, who benefit from Daylight Savings Time are politicians who "solve" a problem by doing something that basically screws everyone over.
dst savings time sucks! mostly cause I have ten clocks I need to change and 8 watches.
Without daylight savings time it would get dark around 8pm during the summer instead of 9pm.
Though I rather this country basically abolish DST and keep it standard time throughout the year.
Great. Now I'm gonna be an hour later everyday.
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I'm glad they start it earlier. Getting out of work when it's dark is depressing.