Daylight Saving to extend by four weeks starting in 2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165128,00.html

I think it's a good idea myself. In the long run it will help to combat the rising cost of energy by reducing total consumption.

I've always thought they had the whole daylight savings thing backwards. I personally would prefer that they add the extra hour during the winter. That way you don't have the huge extreme of darkness at 9:00 in the summer but 5:00 in the winter. 8:00 in the summer and 6:00 in the winter sounds better to me. That way it wouldn't be so freaking dark when I get out of work.

Can anyone explain the whole energy savings thing to me. I just don't understand it.

well, it's not needed in the sw and personally, i hate it. hate when the sun sets at 4:30 in the afternoon during the winter and in the north it wouldn't set until after 9...was hell for going to drive-ins! and the only reason vegas observes it is because we don't want to mix up all the california people coming to visit...or so i'm told. another good reason to live in arizona...not observed at all there (most of indiana too).

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Originally Posted by Fengzi

ICan anyone explain the whole energy savings thing to me. I just don't understand it.

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Daylight-Saving Time: What's the Point?

Daylight savings time - an oxymoron quite really, since it's not saving anything, but anyways the one hour shift for folks in mid northern latitudes is helpful ... but as del points out, it's kinda pointless for folks further south, and also for folks very far north, such as much of Alaska and much of Canada.

With all the tinkering going on it's a reminder of the 70s ... perpetual daylight savings time with very dark mornings, high energy prices, inflation, war ... amazing how history repeats itself, but I digress.

Ron

Thanks for the link Beeble. Still doesn't make much sense to me though. I can totally see it back when most people in the country were farmers but I can't really see it having all that much influence on energy use today. Especially when most people are at home watching the boob tube, or at the computer, after dinner whether or not it's light out.

It really weird when you go to somewhere else in the world where they don't have it. The first time I travelled out of the country I went to Thailand in the middle of the summer. It was still light at 9:00pm back here but over there it was already dark at 6:00pm. There's a spot on the coast where a lot of people go to watch the sunset and there is a sign stating the times for sunset. They're so close to the equator that there's only 5-6 minutes difference in the sunset times from the shortest to the longest day of the year.

"Wow, I'm early for work for the first time! Except for Daylight Savings Time ... stupid farmers!" â?? Homer Simpson

just one more thing to make life difficult.

Due to that action our government here in Ontario Canada is giving serious thought of following suit so as to not mess up the business day.

I hate it too,sun shining at 9 p.m. this isnt Alaska