Daylight Savings Time

by **TheBearcatHimself** on Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:21 pm

So....Daylight Savings time starts this weekend after Congress snuck a bill through last year making Daylight Savings time 3 weeks longer for the year (2 weeks earlier in Spring, 1 later in Fall).

Curious what people think about this. Studies have shown that while energy rates may be beneficial in March and April, all subsequent months demonstrate an increase in energy usage due to cooling patterns with air conditioners. The original argument was that with more sunlight you use less lightbulb energy, but naturally with more sunlight you get more heat, thus why Arizona ignores this caveman method of saving power.

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by **Sonny** on Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:50 pm

MEGA THUMBS UP.

More "usable" hours for outdoor activities in the early evening with more daylight.

by **Jac Coyne** on Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:25 pm

It seems somewhat counterintuitive that daylight savings would somehow impact energy use.

While our Democrat-led Congress is obviously all-powerful (non-binding resolutions are God's work), their edicts don't actually lengthen the normal duration of sunlight in a day. It just backloads it toward the evening hours. Hence, it will be "hot" the same length of time whether the clocks were moved or not.

If daylight savings does not spur people to spend more time outside but rather makes them want to run their AC longer, it's about time for those individuals to be naturally selected out. It's time for Soylent Green.