Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Daylight Savings Time Change Had No Measurable Effect
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 06:00 AM
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070403-the-daylight-savings-change-no-savings-no-point.html
"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."
There is a shocker. :roll: I am so glad I spent all of that time manually adjusting some Windows 2000 boxes with the TZEDIT tool, applying fixes to 3 PCs at home, 6 Windows Mobile devices, 3 TiVos and manually adjusting 2 HP 17BII Calculators. Your tax dollars at work. :bangin:
I propose in 2008 we change to a 22 hour day, eliminating 2 hours of darkness so there will be less electricity usage and late night bathroom runs. Or, better yet, eliminate the 7am-8am and 5pm-6pm rush-hours. Just think of all of the gasoline that will be saved, not to mention the reduced CO2 emissions. :?
"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."
There is a shocker. :roll: I am so glad I spent all of that time manually adjusting some Windows 2000 boxes with the TZEDIT tool, applying fixes to 3 PCs at home, 6 Windows Mobile devices, 3 TiVos and manually adjusting 2 HP 17BII Calculators. Your tax dollars at work. :bangin:
I propose in 2008 we change to a 22 hour day, eliminating 2 hours of darkness so there will be less electricity usage and late night bathroom runs. Or, better yet, eliminate the 7am-8am and 5pm-6pm rush-hours. Just think of all of the gasoline that will be saved, not to mention the reduced CO2 emissions. :?
