Ed, Actually, latest studies show it causes an additional one to four per cent increase in energy use:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87991839 Tom Harper IMS Utilities Development Team Neon Enterprise Software, Inc. Sugar Land, TX -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: clock, daylight savings time Doc Farmer wrote: > Aw, the HECK with this. > > I hereby declare that from now on, "daylight savings" is banned and all > clocks shall be set to GMT only, worldwide. > I have no issue with time zones. But, I really don't like the semi-annual confusion caused by switching between Daylight Saving and Standard Time. Yes, it's been proved to save energy. However, it's also been proved to cost more in the end. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
