Posts Tagged ‘DST’

Spring Forward more like sleeping in annoyed

Posted: March 9, 2008 at 11:16 am by Mike in Politics
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7up Clock
So another day light savings time day comes. My blackberry which automatically updates DST woke me up this morning essentially an hour too early. :evil: Currently my computer says it is 11:18am when it is really 10:18am. I would not go as far as saying DST is evil since well, DST has not tried to exterminate a race of people.
I would say DST is at the very least annoying just like I wrote about it back when Congress decided to increase the length of DST.

Actually it isn’t DST itself, but the change. Tricking people to get up an hour early is fine, but if it thats important lets just stay on DST permanently. People wont lose sleep and us people that work in IT wont have to worry about software that gets screwy with DST.

Some research (PDF) is starting to show that DST does not save energy.
Any politicians out there want to get on the get rid of DST change bandwagon?
Even if I don’t agree with anything else they stand for, I just might just have to vote for them, to get rid of something that is so useless and annoying.

Congress to add 2 months to Daylight Savings Time

Posted: July 20, 2005 at 8:01 pm by Mike in Politics
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It looks like Daylight Saving Time is about to be extended, and that has child safety and fire prevention advocates riled. …..

I hate Daylight Savings Time. Yes I absolutely hate it.
There is nothing more annoying that having to change clocks and sleeping patterns for no good reason.
Why?
To save energy? Well, sure just ask this congressman.

“The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use,” said U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)

Oh I get it. We change the time and viola we have more daylight.
What does the earth stop rotating for an hour during daylight?
No? So we have the same amount of daylight. We are just tricked into getting up an hour earlier and going to bed an hour earlier.
Well thank you very much.
I really don’t care if it does save energy, it is crap.
Actually I should rephrase this. I do not hate DST itself, I hate the frackin changing.
If DST is so wonderful and saves so much energy why not just make the whole year DST. Imagine the energy we could save if everyone is tricked into getting up earlier the entire year.
jeesh