Obama Looks to Axe Daylight Time — NYT Explains Why – Green Daily
In order to conserve energy, President-elect Barak Obama wants to eliminate daylight saving time.
Hell to the yes. Everytime we switch the time I get some massive weird depression for about a week and I have no idea why. Maybe it’s environmental? From what I understand DST was first used for farmers who needed to get their crops done by a particular time or some craziness like that. I’d be happy to see DST go the way of the dodo.
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I like DST. I’m a late riser, rarely before noon. I like when the sun sets around 9.30pm in the summer. It’s not about the farmers and never was. Farmers don’t care what time sun-up is, they just get up when ever the sun rises. They started it for energy conservation in pre-air-conditioner days. Now w/ everyone using air conditioners, it doesn’t actually conserve energy anymore. It was also about having more daylight time for the average 9-5 worker.
according to the link it was started by Ben Franklin to limit the use of candles.
yeah, candles.
It’s such an aggravating practice, many parts of the world don’t use it, Kuwait does, Iraq doesn’t you have Zulu time in Greenwich starts at 00 than the +03, -03, and etc time zones but you have to rack your brain to factor in day lights savings so is it really central time or +1/-1. I wonder how long we’ll preserve this tradition, I would prefer seeing it dark early in winter season, later in summer and/or vise versa… or is there a formula we could adjust clocks too to actually match the sun and time synchronization.
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isn’t there a method of time that’s universal for the planet?
I don’t really care either way. Dark still comes earlier in winter… which sucks. I wish we could just do away with winter…
oh wait, we’re working on that.
:p
It’s not that confusing, is it? Most people manage it just fine as far as I can tell. Yeah, you get a little bit of jet lag feeling for a couple of days, but once you get accustomed to it you’re fine…well I am anyway.
It wasn’t for farmers, it was for golfers. Seriously! From Wikipedia:
The prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day. An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk.
@Alek Hahah, really? That’s great!