Comments on: Down With DST

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:30:54 +0000

I disagree with the findings of the study. They simply don't pass the smell test. For example, most people either have a thermostat that is only changed manually, or one that adjusts the temperature according to a clock. It should take about the same amount of energy to cool a house to a certain temperature four hours after high sun or five hours.

I know my home doesn't vary that much in temperature in the course of a day, let alone a one hour period. Does your home? In fact, my home stays warm weeks after the outside temperature begins to cool in fall.

By: Iblis

Iblis — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:21:27 +0000

DST is a bad idea that just won't go away. Every time its reason for being is overtaken by history, a new fig leaf of an excuse is pulled out of someone's bureaucratic a$$.

Change your own clock if you want to. But please god leave the rest of us alone!

By: Alan Gunn

Alan Gunn — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:16:37 +0000

I don’t much care which, but it would be nice if everybody either observed or didn’t observe DST. Until a few years ago, my part of Indiana wasn’t on DST, while the next county west and most other states were. So for half the year we were on the same time as our neighbors, and for the other half we weren’t. This was annoying, and a lot of people missed appointments by forgetting that their neighbors had switched.

By: eCurmudgeon

eCurmudgeon — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:53:20 +0000

While we’re at it, can we work on getting rid of time zones as well? Move everyone over to GMT and be done with it once and for all…

By: Highway

Highway — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:46:27 +0000

I actually prefer Daylight Saving Time. I even like the ritual of dealing with the clocks.

It might matter that I'm on the middle to eastern side of the time zone, rather than being on the western side of the time zone. I know in trips to michigan, in the middle of the summer, with DST, they've got sunlight until like 10 pm, which is weird.

It's almost like time zones should shift halfway eastward instead of a blanket DST.

By: basher20

basher20 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:19:41 +0000

Don’t change it this year or next. I’m not patching and testing 125 servers again any time soon.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:27:55 +0000

A bigger correction – Daylight Savings Time was a Ben Franklin invention.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:47:09 +0000

Count me in as a fan of DST. I understand your argument for Arizona, but for the rest of the country that has decided _not_ to live in 115 degree Phoenix, it’s awfully nice.

And, it’s origins go back long before WWII:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:56:15 +0000

AMEN and AMEN.

I loved NOT changing all of the damned clocks in the house when we lived in Indiana. (I understand that Indiana lost its mind and now observed DST)

My wife has a particularly hard time adjusting to it. For three to six weeks she drags through the day.

Stop screwing with my day, dadgummit!

AMEN and AMEN.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:27:55 +0000

If, like me, you lived in Chicago, where the sun sets at 4:20 in mid-December and even now still sets pretty early at 5:40, you'd be pining for DST, as I am right now!

Interesting about the energy savings, however. Probably a bigger factor in places like Arizona than here in Chicago, where I live near the lake. Lake Michigan has a cooling effect which really reduces our air conditioning use in the summer.