July 21, 2005
Twilight Savings Time
ThreeSources blogger AlexC hits an intriguing point in a post on his pstupidonymous blog.
Congressional alchemists once again believe they have found some free energy laying around, if we just move the clocks. 100,000 bbls of oil a day will be saved by adding another month of Daylight Savings Time, because lights would be used less in the early evenings.
"What about lights in the morning?" asks AlexC, later suggesting to end the whole thing.
Any Daylight Savings fans running around? Silence's hero, Benjamin Franklin, is frequently credited with the idea.
I was thinking that Air Conditioning represents much more use than lights, and was going to propose Twilight Savings time: set the clocks ahead 12 hours in the summer, so we can all work at night when it's cooler...
I'm a fan. I think we should use it year 'round. I once pondered changing my work schedule during standard time to unilaterally put myself on DST. I was fed up with not getting home until after dark in the winter months. My boss at the time, a miserable pain in the ass, forbade it. Loser.
Posted by: johngalt at July 21, 2005 3:00 PMCheck out the cool interactive map at: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html
Posted by: johngalt at July 21, 2005 3:06 PMAha! Bad bosses aside, I think the heart of my question (at least the spleen) is: Does the gub'mint mandated time shift make sense or could it be handled better by the private sector.
And -- if you want it year 'round, that's an excuse for shifting the time zone -- not an excuse to change it twice a year. Innit?
Posted by: jk at July 21, 2005 4:03 PM | What do you think? [3]