Daylight Savings Time to be extended in USA

Paul_in_Maryland · #1 07-26-2005, 03:30 PM

Bad news, my fellow Americans. According to National Public Radio, Congress is considering legislation to extend Daylight Savings Time by 4 weeks. It would start 3 weeks sooner. It would end 1 week later.

The goal is to save energy.

Those killjoys...

Sigman · #2 07-26-2005, 05:58 PM

Won't do a thing for us in Alaska!

greenLED · #3 07-27-2005, 01:41 PM

I like having light 'till 10 pm

Lynx_Arc · #4 07-27-2005, 02:17 PM

Sooner or later they will just have to shove everyone over a complete time zone, then they with the new time zones they will start daylight savings on it, that way all of the US will be on Hawaii time in the year 2047.

The_LED_Museum · #5 07-27-2005, 03:15 PM

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Sub_Umbra · #6 07-27-2005, 04:30 PM

Out here at the edge of the bell shaped curve, my wife and I will like it. We are both hardcore night people and while we would never think of lobbying for anything like that, we will gladly accept another hour of darkness in the morning, wherever it comes from.

Unicorn · #7 07-27-2005, 04:41 PM

That hour of darkness in the morning is why I don't understand the point of DST in most places. People already are getting up in darkness ot go to work. How is having them have lights on in the morning insead of at night going to save any energy? And I understand that people will turn those lights out when they leave the house, but the lights in there workplaces will have to be on earlier, so where is this energy savings coming from?

Grubbster · #8 07-27-2005, 06:45 PM

To me it is all just a mind game. I don't see how moving the time would save much if any energy. There will still be the same number of light and dark hours in the day. Besides, I doubt that lighting actually is as big an energy consumer as many of the other things electricity is used for such as air conditioning. That usage will not change. I would personally like to see daylight savings disappear completely. It's a real bitch trying to get the youngins' down to bed while it is still light! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sleepy.gif[/img]

Unicorn · #9 08-03-2005, 05:04 PM

Exactly, it's just a waste of effort, and dare I say it, time. Let's just stop the madness!

AJ_Dual · #10 08-04-2005, 03:15 PM

What we really need is a string of nuclear detonations, or engineered retrograde asteroid impacts to slow the earth's rotation down to 25 hours instead of 24.

Then there'd be enough time in the day to get everything done. Until the details can be worked out, (stuff like nuclear treaties, and designing space missions take time), Congress should just pass legislation making the day 25 hours long until such time the missions are complete and the day actually is that long.

NASA and my congressman never returns any of my calls for some reason. They must be real busy… [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]