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Re: There’s no proof Daylight Saving Time saves electricity, so why do we even bother?
Author: Edward
Date: 03-09-2015 - 23:27
"An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later." -Winston Churchill
"It seems very strange . . . that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. . . . The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood." -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In 2001 California petitioned Congress to allow year round DST. Then came 9/11 and it fell through the cracks. You wouldn't have to change clocks and you would have the advantages of, say, The Netherlands, which is on the western edge of its time zone and has late sunsets. Of course that is without DST, which it also has. One can read the paper outdoors almost 'til 11.
Being a bit north of Calgary helps too. Another example of why DST is more useful the closer you get to the poles.
"It seems very strange . . . that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. . . . The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood." -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In 2001 California petitioned Congress to allow year round DST. Then came 9/11 and it fell through the cracks. You wouldn't have to change clocks and you would have the advantages of, say, The Netherlands, which is on the western edge of its time zone and has late sunsets. Of course that is without DST, which it also has. One can read the paper outdoors almost 'til 11.
Being a bit north of Calgary helps too. Another example of why DST is more useful the closer you get to the poles.
