This is one for the books.

"airman" wrote in message
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Would extending daylight savings time give us more daylight?

See Rep. Ed Markey's comments:

Depends on your perspective. The quote sounds really stupid, like
the farmer that sued the government for changing the day and making his
crops fail, or the dairy operator whose cows went berserk and didn't give
the milk at the assigned (DST) time.
Personally, I don't particularly like daylight savings time in the first
place. But, considering the logic of shifting the clock hands so more
daylight appears at the end of the day does make sense in conserving
electricity. Ask your municipality what are the costs for street lighting
and it won't make any difference over the year. But if all the house lights
don't go on for another hour into the evening, the energy savings could be
substantial.
There's two problems here. Hardly anybody understands the "savings" part
of DST, and legislators like Markey make stupid statements -- or, the
statement is taken out of context.

"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote in message news:x3g5e.889$hB6.333@trnddc06...
Depends on your perspective. Personally, I don't particularly like daylight savings time in the first
place.

That's about the only thing I agree with in this discussion. I don't like DST at all. It is an outdated primitive way to
control peoples actions. If you want more daylight at the end of your day, get up earlier!

"Blueskies" wrote

If you want more daylight at the end of your day, get up earlier!

That assumes you have control (many people do not) over your assigned
working hours. You know what assuming means.
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in message ...

"Blueskies" wrote

If you want more daylight at the end of your day, get up earlier!

That assumes you have control (many people do not) over your assigned
working hours. You know what assuming means.
--
Jim in NC



Then the employer should work with their folks to set the hours, rather than having the gov't mandate it for all...

("Blueskies" wrote)
Then the employer should work with their folks to set the hours, rather
than having the gov't mandate it for all...


A: That'll never happen.

B: We like DST.

We really, really like DST - there, I just voted twice.


Mont and Black

"Blueskies" wrote in message
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"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Blueskies" wrote

If you want more daylight at the end of your day, get up earlier!

That assumes you have control (many people do not) over your assigned
working hours. You know what assuming means.
--
Jim in NC



Then the employer should work with their folks to set the hours, rather
than having the gov't mandate it for all...


Since the government "mandates" the time whether it is DST or not, what is
your point?

"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote in message
news:x3g5e.889$hB6.333@trnddc06...
[...] if all the house lights
don't go on for another hour into the evening, the energy savings could be
substantial.

I guess that depends on your definition of "substantial". 10,000 barrels
out of 20 million doesn't sound substantial to me, even if we could save
that every day of the year (rather than the two months daylight saving, no
"s", time would be extended). There are lots better, more practical and
more effective ways to conserve energy than this.

When we have no way to save 10%, 1%, 0.1%, 0.01%, and 0.001% of our daily
energy consumption, then maybe we can worry about something like this.
Until then, I'd say this is either a suggestion from someone without their
brain engaged, or it's a suggestion from someone with a hidden agenda (ie,
the change would profit someone other than the American people).

Since we're talking about a Congressperson here, it's hard to tell the
difference sometimes, but either way it ain't good.

Pete

No, but it would give all the software companies a new reason to sell us an
upgrade.


"airman" wrote in message
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Would extending daylight savings time give us more daylight?

See Rep. Ed Markey's comments:


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...e&sid=84439559