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Check it out: Congress wants to extend Daylight Saving Time
I forgot for a second, but then remembered, the US Congress doesn't actually have the power to make the sun stay up longer. Why on earth would they propose this? Instead why don't the abolish the whole system and just let us have our clocks back? We're not on a farm economy anymore, and people who have farms get up when the sun rises whether it's 8 am or 6 am or 4 am regardless.
I absolutely hate daylight saving time (and the switch back). It makes me cringe and whine and moan, because we don't actually control time. We have no say in how fast the earth rotates, and unless we score some major technology or another moon or something, that's not going to change. So why can't we just give it up already?
I forgot for a second, but then remembered, the US Congress doesn't actually have the power to make the sun stay up longer. Why on earth would they propose this? Instead why don't the abolish the whole system and just let us have our clocks back? We're not on a farm economy anymore, and people who have farms get up when the sun rises whether it's 8 am or 6 am or 4 am regardless.
I absolutely hate daylight saving time (and the switch back). It makes me cringe and whine and moan, because we don't actually control time. We have no say in how fast the earth rotates, and unless we score some major technology or another moon or something, that's not going to change. So why can't we just give it up already?
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Date: 2005-04-07 07:48 pm (UTC)I'm really trying hard to figure out how this is going to save any energy... Can't come up with it. Unless people only get up 30 mins before work, then go immediately to bed 30 mins afterward, which is, I'm sure, how the world works *rolls eyes*. Also? Most businesses and such have their lights on during business hours, and those are constant hours, not-in-any-way based on the sun...
~e! whose brain is now hurting
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Date: 2005-04-07 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-07 07:55 pm (UTC)"The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use."
The amount of daylight won't change, and even if it did, it wouldn't change the amount of electricity I use.
Where are they getting these ideas?
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Date: 2005-04-07 10:58 pm (UTC)I personally think it's either the crazy pills or someone put something in the water. Well, I'm trying to cling to that idea, since otherwise I'd have to assume they're morons...
ok, i kinda do assume they're morons. Sigh. running the country. sigh again.
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Date: 2005-04-07 11:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-09 06:40 am (UTC)