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| # Posted 2008-03-09 20:08:46 | |
| bill_l: | started (for most of the US) at 2AM last night. Don't forget to set your clocks ahead an hour.... |
| # Posted 2008-03-09 20:27:38 | |
| Kiki: | Only if you live in one of those silly states that still tries to save daylight. Save it from what? |
| # Posted 2008-03-09 21:27:35 | |
| dcady: | Attack badgers? |
| # Posted 2008-03-09 22:35:56 | |
| ndobbs: | i wish it were here now... sunshine (on the rare occasion we get sun in poland) come in the window at 7am... and it still gets dark earlyish... rdv for europeans in three weeks? |
| # Posted 2008-03-09 23:42:12 | |
| bill_l: | The French that started it, I think. By moving the 'active' hours to match the hours of daylight they would burn fewer candles, thus saving money.... |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 04:06:56 | |
| johncrowther: | It was actually invented by a Brit, but it seems that Germany may have been the first country to use it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Willett |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 04:46:14 | |
| jjcote: | Well, that really tosses out the window the old wives' tale about saving candle wax, doesn't it? Daylight saving time didn't start until 1916! And my fancy atomic clock didn't do the right thing this morning, but since it synchronizes at 1 AM, I believe, I have hopes for it figuring things out tonight. |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 05:55:36 | |
| jeffw: | I heard something on NPR that said that people actually use more power because they are up earlier which is colder, so they crank up the heat. |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 09:05:03 | |
| DInglis: | For the record, the idea of daylight savings was first suggested by Ben Franklin, an American (though he was living in Paris at the time), as a way of saving money on candles.
Original text (with math!): http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.ht... Summary: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin.htm... (edit:) After reading the Wiki site on Willett, they seem to gloss over Ben's importance and contributions... |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 09:18:33 | |
| Bash: | According to this article, Daylight Savings Time leads to more energy consumption because people use more air conditioning in summer (which Ben couldn't have anticipated) and get up at a colder time of day at this time of year. But people who finish work in daylight are more likely to go shopping after work...
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/326611 |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 09:35:20 | |
| jingo6390: | We get all the daylight we need in Arizona, especially in the summer. We could use a little Nighttime Savings. |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 17:27:12 | |
| Kiki: | Yeah, I don't want it to be sunny (=hot) any later in the day in the summer... |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 17:54:43 | |
| johncrowther: | Well it was dark when I got up this morning (for the first time in several weeks). Would that qualify as "Nighttime Savings"? |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 18:50:44 | |
| jjcote: | Franklin does not appear to have ever suggested that the clocks be adjusted. He just said that you should get out of bed once the sun comes up.
Generally speaking, places that are far west in their time zones, such as Arizona (or until recently Indiana) are not very interested in DST, since the sun says up late in the evening for them anyway. But places that are far east in their time zones, like Maine, like it a whole lot. |
| # Posted 2008-03-10 22:22:00 | |
| chitownclark: | And places further north, that experience drastic shifts in daylight between summer and winter, find DST more important than locations towards the tropics, where it is generally not observed. |
| # Posted 2008-03-11 08:08:21 | |
| bill_l: | If what I read is accurate, Franklin suggested firing off cannons and ringing church bells to wake people when the sun came up. Not exactly the same as changing the clocks, but along the same lines.
Today, I used my bike light on the way to work instead of on the way home. No savings there. |
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