The Daylight Saving change: no savings, no point --- NO SHIT SHERLOCK

[xultar]

The Daylight Saving change: no savings, no point
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070403-the-daylight-savings-change-no-savings-no-point.html
By Ken Fisher | Published: April 03, 2007 - 11:41AM CT

The US government's plan to boost energy savings by moving Daylight Saving Time forward by three weeks was apparently a waste of time and effort, as the technological foibles Americans experienced failed to give way to any measurable energy savings.

While the change caused no major infrastructure problems in the country, plenty of electronics and computer systems that were designed with the original DST switchover date (first Sunday in April) failed to update. The inconvenience was minor, and the potential savings were great. Or so we were told by the politicians behind the move.

As it turns out, the US Department of Energy (and almost everyone else except members of Congress) was correct when they predicted that there would be little energy savings. This echoed concerns voiced after a similar experiment was attempted in Australia. Critics pointed out a basic fact: the gains in the morning will be offset by the losses at night, and vice-versa, at both ends of the switch. That appears to be exactly what happened.

Reuters spoke with Jason Cuevas, spokesman for Southern Co. power, who said it plainly: "We haven't seen any measurable impact." New Jersey's Public Service Enterprise Group said the same thing: "no impact" on their business.

[tanyev]

1. But PLEASE just leave it the way it is now. Don't change it again.

[Ignacio Upton]

2. Now can we move DST back to its old weeks of change?

I'm not totally anti-DST, though, especially since I live in the Northeast, and I like having long summer days.

[tammywammy]

5. I'm not anti-DST

but I changed my alarm clock three weeks ago and last Sunday it sprung forward. It's really a minor annoyance, but I wouldn't mind if we went back to the way it was before.

[tridim]

3. We could just go to metric time and forget the whole thing.

Seriously I hope we never have to "fall back" again. Just leave it as it is right now.

[Demeter]

4. We Could All Go On Greenwich Mean--or Sidereal

[EstimatedProphet]

9. Let's go on Universal Coordinated Time

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

6. I want my hour back, dammit.

I been robbed!

[xultar]

11. The way I see it the fucker took 21 hrs away from me. Damn right i want it back.

I knew it wouldn't do anything because the sun hadn't changed positions.

Fuckers. One bluder after another.

[KG]

7. don't hate me because full time DST would be my choice.

i'm sure y'all got plenty of other reasons :hi:

[mcscajun]

8. Well, DUH! This was a DUH-Bya Administration idea, right?

DuhM DuhM DuhBya.

Now...are we going to curtail this on the back end and resume Standard Time as usual in October? One can only hope. For my own choice, I'd take Eastern Standard Time, all the time. :)

[Benhurst]

10. I think it's cruel to make fun of

George Walker Bush's greatest achievement.

[Raine]

12. Another failed costly experiment

that came out of this MISadministration. x(

[HughBeaumont]

13. They need to ADD four hours to each day somehow.

24 is NOT even nearly enough time in the day to do everything needed for life, considering the average person spends 18-20 of them (sometimes more) either asleep or getting ready for, commuting to/from or being at work. Oooooh, that leaves a whopping four to six hours to read, spend time with family, make them dinner, help the kids with their homework, do housework, study or generally just do something FOR YOURSELF, not for someone else. Oh wait, you say . . . free time comes on weekends. How many of us have to WORK on weekends? Come on now . . . I know I do and my wife sometimes has to.

Do people who go to college full time and work full time just not sleep or have a life at all?