Daylight Savings

Luckily, I'm not one. Strangely, I don't really have a rooted opinion on this. If it means that it will be lighter later in the evenings, sure, I guess I'm for it, but is the questionable energy savings worth the other economic headaches that will come with it?

I'd rather run 4 lights then 2 air conditioners if I'm trying to conserve power.

We need to do what we can to conserve energy. This is going to be a very expensive winter for Americans who live in the Northeast and upper Midwest.

We used to have daylight savings time to save daylight, now it's more to save energy. I think that we should just move to a nocturnal schedule for the summer to drive down cooling costs. We would only have to power ACs in people's bedrooms and most business will be closed during those hot parts of the day.

Can't agree with you here. I enjoy light and warmth. I don't think becoming a morlock is the best way to avert an energy crisis.

Don't fear your underground masters!

This is going to be a big pain in the butt for GMT-to-local time conversions... I use java for lots of things and that is built-in, but will it work? I doubt it, unless sun releases a patch of some kind.

I think it is outstanding.

For general info : William Willett proposed British Summer Time in 1908 with his publication 'The waste of Daylight' , using a staggered clock change , and estimating the saving in artificial light to be about 2.5 million GBP . He was laughed out of town. Germany introduced daylight saving to help war production in 1916 , and Britain followed on May 21st 1916.

With changes in how/where people work does it still makes sense for all . How many jobs could be done at night when people could be using power generated during low demand . Night work is not everybody's ideal , but it has it's advantages for many peoples life-style . I hold no view on the merits or viability of shifting peoples work hours , but would be interested to hear opinion from any one who does . Has any recent cost analysis been done on daylight saving given changes in farming methods/people involved/ vs power generation and work that could be done at other hours .