Having solved all the other problems..

[madajb]

Congress is now going to mess with your clock (http://www.modbee.com/24hour/opinions/story/2564713p-10987837c.html)
-ajb

[mario]

well....it's boring solvind all the world's (um...US...but does the rest of the "world" matter??!?) problems...

[ncttrnl]

I wonder if they realize how much software they are going to break. Asshats

[paultakeda]

I wonder what dollar values they came up with to indicate savings by extending DST.

Fun. The only time you will have the correct time will be in the winter.

[madajb]

I wonder what dollar values they came up with to indicate savings by extending DST.

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The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use,'' said U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who co-sponsored the measure with U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.).

The pair cited a government study that estimated the additional energy savings at the equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil a day, or about half of 1 percent of the nation's daily oil consumption. Most of the energy saved would be in the form of electricity because lights would be used less in the early evenings, the study projected.
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-ajb

[paultakeda]

Yeah, but did they take into account latitude? Places like New England which has a high population density in an upper latitude are already in dark winter by October with lights on in the "early" evening.

[paultakeda]

As an odd aside, China, a country larger in land mass than the continental United States, only has one time: Beijing time. This means people out in Chinese Turkestan have business hours of 1pm - 10pm, except for official government buildings, where they open at 9am when it will be ridiculously dark for the next three to four hours, but get to go home when the sun has just reached apex.

[madajb]

Yeah, but did they take into account latitude? Places like New England which has a high population density in an upper latitude are already in dark winter by October with lights on in the "early" evening.
Umm..hello?
We're talking about Congress here..._of course_, they took that into account.
They wouldn't pass an amendment to a bill unless they'd considered all it's possible ramifications...

-ajb

[paultakeda]

Umm..hello?
We're talking about Congress here..._of course_, they took that into account.
They wouldn't pass an amendment to a bill unless they'd considered all it's possible ramifications...

-ajb

Heh.

[mario]

Umm..hello?
We're talking about Congress here..._of course_, they took that into account.
They wouldn't pass an amendment to a bill unless they'd considered all it's possible ramifications...

-ajb
wow, you've renewed my faith! thanks! that's all I need. Vote for bush in 2008!

[madajb]

Heh.
Seriously though, I think they should abolish the whole thing.
Have you ever been in an office building in the daytime that didn't have all the lights running?
Sure, it happens occasionally in an individual office, but the default mode is on.

Same thing at home, people turn lights on when they get in, regardless of the amount of natural light.

Hell, if they abolished it, maybe we'd start to see office buildings and housing built to take advantage of the natural light available(I can dream).

-ajb

[ncttrnl]

wow, you've renewed my faith! thanks! that's all I need. Vote for bush in 2008!

Because if we voted for Kerry I'm sure Congress would be much smarter :rolleyes:

[Troike]

Arizona has no DST ... but it still affects the state; half the year we're on Mountain and half the year Pacific, so our TV scheduling changes even though our clocks don't!