When policitians have too much free time: "Daylight Saving Time Could End In California"
http://patch.com/california/westhollywood/daylight-saving-time-could-end-california Assembly Bill 2496 would end the practice of daylight saving time in California, undoing a law that voters approved back in 1949 with a special election. No springing forward, no falling back. The bill has been introduced by California Assemblyman Kansen Chu, D-San Jose, who is following the lead of several other states in trying to pass similar legislation. In 2015, a dozen states were considering DST legislation, including Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Currently, only Arizona and Hawaii take a pass on the seasonal time changes twice each year. Chu believes things should change in California. Health complaints from constituents led him to research the effects of the twice-yearly time jolts. "I heard some complaints last year from some of the senior citizens (in my district) and their care providers who say this one-hour difference really impacted their lives," Chu told the Sacramento Bee. - - - You can always tell when an elected official has too much time on their hands, they start spewing out moronic stuff like this. We have too many important issues to be dealing with here in California without wasting time and money on garbage of this sort. More money blown on expensive studies, campaigns, and associated rot. This guy is apparently basing his bill on "talking to some seniors." Excuse me? Where's the science and the data? Oh yes, in fact, this has been looked at and it's contradictory as hell: However, an analysis by staff of the California Energy Commission says the [Indiana] study may not yield the same results for California because: The use of residential air conditioning is relatively low in Indiana, and the saturations are low. California has high usage of air conditioning in the summer. Heating use is relatively high in Indiana, while it is relatively low in California. The diurnal variation in Indiana temperature is low while California is very high. Indiana is located in western edge of the same time zone as Maine and Florida, but the sun actually comes up at an earlier time than those other two states. Indiana's north-south location will affect how long the days are in the summer and might very well lead to different results in different areas. So, concludes the CEC, "while the analysis is of interest to Indiana, it's conclusions may not be totally correct for California or the rest of the country." And frankly, I could survive quite nicely without having to screw around with tz settings in an array of legacy systems again, or having the time difference between California and most states varying twice during the year. It's bad enough with the UK. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
