I can't believe this !@$ about the US changing the rules on Daylight Savings Time

[thewayne]

"To save fossil fuel" my Sweet Aunt's patootie! If they were serious about such things they'd increase the CAFE standards every year by 0.2 MPG and not allow carry-forward credits.

I really hope that Canada doesn't change its time zones. Knowing how much they don't like our current administration, I think they probably won't.

I've never understood the benefit for DST, but then again, up until now, I've lived in Arizona all my life and quite happily ignored it. Windows was nice enough to include an Arizona time zone that doesn't switch for DST, my VCR had a configuration option to ignore it, my current Palm Pilot ignores it all together, the only things that I had to do was to shift my atomic clock one zone twice a year and to remember to shift for Russet's work schedule. Now I don't have to shift my atomic clock nor remember Russet's work schedule as when she's not at home, she's at work, but I do have to remember where ALL my friends are and accomodate that. At least I'm one hour closer to my Eastern friends.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050807/ap_on_hi_te/daylight_saving_tech

Comments

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

'Tis a mystery to me, perhaps our ignorance is a Zonie thing. Wikipedia describes the history of DST (first implemented by Germany around World War I) here that also describes the rational of changing it right now, and wouldn't you know, the number cited is based on outdated Department of Energy statistics that DoE doesn't stand by any more.

Myself, I've often considered that if I had a brick & mortar store in a state that observed DST, that I would change the store hours when DST changed and keep to my own prefered schedule. Who knows if I'll ever do that, but that's my opinion.