SHOCKING: Study: Daylight Saving Time actually raises utility bills

Study: Daylight Saving Time actually raises utility bills

http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/83073

This isn't the first time the energy-saving rationale of Daylight Saving Time has been attacked. The first was in 1976, three years after DST went into effect, when the National Bureau of Standards found that there was no significant energy savings after the switch. The recent expansion of DST to a few extra weeks was also revealed to have saved no energy during its run. And yet here we are...

Once again, thank you, Congress, for messing with stuff you don't need to be messing with.

BTW, don't forget to mess with the clocks this weekend..........

[SUBMAN1]

And in other news, is the term Standard Time mean that this is the time we are on the 'majority' of the time? WHo knows, maybe I am backwards and don't understand the idea of the term 'standard time'.

-S

[fredbass]

From Wikipedia:

A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Most adjacent time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from UTC (see also Greenwich Mean Time).

Standard time zones can be defined by geometrically subdividing the Earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge-shaped sections), bordered by meridians each 15° of longitude apart. The local time in neighbouring zones would differ by one hour. However, political and geographical practicalities can result in irregularly-shaped zones that follow political boundaries or that change their time seasonally (as with daylight saving time), as well as being subject to occasional redefinition as political conditions change.

Before the adoption of time zones, people used local solar time (originally apparent solar time, as with a sundial; and, later, mean solar time). Mean solar time is the average over a year of apparent solar time. Its difference from apparent solar time is the equation of time.

This became increasingly awkward as railways and telecommunications improved, because clocks differed between places by an amount corresponding to the difference in their geographical longitude, which was usually not a convenient number. This problem could be solved by synchronizing the clocks in all localities, but then in many places the local time would differ markedly from the solar time to which people are accustomed. Time zones are thus a compromise, relaxing the complex geographic dependence while still allowing local time to approximate the mean solar time. There has been a general trend to push the boundaries of time zones further west of their designated meridians in order to create a permanent daylight saving time effect. The increase in worldwide communication has further increased the need for interacting parties to communicate mutually comprehensible time references to one another.

[Rhodes]

It is alreday this weekend? Isn't in the last weekend of March? Bahhh, I always against this one, minus one hour to sleep and always think that the solar hour is the good one!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Rhodes

It is alreday this weekend? Isn't in the last weekend of March? Bahhh, I always against this one, minus one hour to sleep and always think that the solar hour is the good one!

Can you imagine how frustrating it is for some of us here in the UK......the home of GMT

[August]

In related news, it was also revealed that Daylight Saving Time actually creates no additional daylight.