Proposed daylight savings time changes |
Continuing the subject of energy conservation, congress should read my last post, but instead they have other ideas. Currently daylight savings time is the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October but congress wants to change that:
The U.S. Congress signed off on a provision Tuesday to extend daylight savings time hours by two months. It would begin on the first weekend in March, and end the last weekend in November.
The belief is this could help curb energy consumption but the reality is no matter what the clock says people will still turn on lights when it gets too dark to see.
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The belief is this could help curb energy consumption but the reality is no matter what the clock says people will still turn on lights when it gets too dark to see.
By changing what the clock says, we change our relation to dawn and dusk (when people turn lights off and on). By extending day light savings, we are extending the time that dawn is closest to the start of our day and dusk is closest to the end of our day.
Comment by Andrew Ferguson — July 20, 2005 @ 11:36 am PST
[…] Who do we blame if this results in technological confusion? Congress, of course! […]
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