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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?

Date: 2005-04-07 07:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elizabuffy.livejournal.com
Why don't people realise that the sun is going to shine for a certain amount of hours that remains constant, regardless of what time it is? Saying it's 6pm isn't going to make the sun shine any longer. I don't even get the point of this propsition. How is it going to work? Most people are time, not sun-based, these days (as you said).

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

Date: 2005-04-07 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scratchingpost1.livejournal.com
So, why is the Transportation Department involved?

"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?

Date: 2005-04-07 11:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gilesbabe.livejournal.com
I'm lucky in that I've lived in two states in my lifetime and neither one goes to daylight savings. Central Indiana when I was growing up, and Arizona now. At least a couple of state govenments have a few brains.

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