So I guess no one ever thought about stopping the usage of DST.. A bunch of us would be grateful....lol
Scott On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:49 PM Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:23:58 -0500, Allan Kielstra wrote: > > >The start date and end date for DST was adjusted sometime in the decade > of the 2000s. ... > > > 2007: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States#2005.E2.80.932009:_Second_extension > > > ... Again, this was done as an energy saving scheme. I can't find the > evidence of it at the moment but I recall another instance of the law of > unintended consequences. Apparently, (at least in the US) early in the new > DST period, a fair number of people got home from work while it was quite > light and used the opportunity to drive to a mall or place of > entertainment. As a result energy consumption actually went up in the > first weeks. (Again, this may be apocryphal. Still, I found it a bit > amusing.) > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
