On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:59 PM Curt Howland <howl...@priss.com> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Monday 08 March 2021, Joshua Judson Rosen was heard to say: > > On 3/6/21 9:17 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > > > I mean, how silly can one be to object to it being dark when you > > > wake up, and then demanding that everyone else change the time on > > > their clocks so it's light at 7am the way you want it to be? > > > > Isn't that pretty much exactly the _opposite_ of what DST does? > > Yes. That is given as a reason to change the clocks. Back during the > wave of "energy saving measures" in the early 1970s, staying on DST > through the year was objected to because, and I quote, "Children were > waiting for the bus in the dark." > > And when they moved the dates by 3 weeks in 2007, they found that the energy changes depended on your climate. A study in California found a 0.2% decrease in electricity. A 2008 study in Indiana had a 1% increase in consumption. Of course that 1% in Indiana translated to ~ $9 million/yr. FWIW, changing the clocks is not an American thing. The UK developed BST 1st. So even the UK doesn't stay on GMT!
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