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Daylight slavings time may actually increase energy usage


According to this article, a study in Indiana showed that implementing Daylight Slavings Time may actually increase energy usage.

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So WHY am I getting up earlier on Sunday?

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So that golfers have more time to play Sunday evening.

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They could at least buy me brunch.

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You mean, you don't feel socially conscious enough to participate in a fake savings?

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I think I'll just leave my clock the way it is.

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Is that this week?

Add me to the list of people who dislike Daylight Savings. It just messes with my body clock. Not to mention Mr. Boo's body clock.

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I say they should leave it on all year long.

Or leave the other one on all year long.



Oh, and maybe I'm wrong, but isn't Indiana one of the places that doesn't change?  Or maybe I just didn't change when I was on my mish? confuse.gif

-- Edited by Cocobeem at 07:38, 2008-03-05

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Arizona and parts of Indiana don't change. I've never had to change a clock for daylight savings time. I think everyone should be brought to the truth.

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Actually, that's what the article is about - now all of Indiana does DST. So this study compared energy usage before and after DST became universal in Indiana.

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There's a lot more people out in the boonies with power and laptops in Hoosierland now, too. Just look at our very own beefche. biggrin.gif

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Daylight Savings Time is just plain stupid when you live as far north as I do. As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather have that light at the beginning of the day than at the end. After a long winter, it's so much easier to get out of bed when it's light out. Yay for sunshine!

Just as that starts to happen, BOOM! dark in the morning again for at least another month. It really sucks. Saskatchewan doesn't buy into DST, and I wish we were the same.

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I'm still fighting jet lag from my business trip last week. Now with DST this weekend I'm in big trouble. DST is completely useless for farmers. They get up early so the daylight in the very early morning compared to the evening is more favorable. I never believed it saved power because no matter how you move the clocks you can't change the fact that there are only so many hours of daylight during the day. I wish they would just leave it one way or the other because I know there is lost productivity as people have to adjust their internal clocks.

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Oh, man. Getting up when it's still dark is just WRONG, I say! disbelief.gif

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Yeah, and this isn't going to help me make to the gym in the morning, that's for sure.

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I think getting up in the dark is the hardest thing about getting up in the morning. I usually get up before the sun comes up but until those first rays start coming in I'm a zombie.

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Plus, it's against my religion.

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Well, it looks like this discussion has voted unanimously that DST is the pits. Anyone heard of anyone who likes it?

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Yeah, I've talked to people that like it. Frequently they're people who like getting up early anyway, and so they're glad that the rest of the world is forced to get up early with them.

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That's devil thinking.

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I don't know anyone in my family that likes it. My dad says that we should keep the clocks the same, and just get up earlier or later if you want to.

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Dude. Your dad is like too cutting-edge of a thinker for this planet! Is he who you really think he is?

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Coco, rein in your x-files noggin'.

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