because Y2K wasn't enough
Aug. 8th, 2005 21:54![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
piranhaof a problem, the new US energy bill changes daylight saving time starting in 2007. yeah, that's what's gonna make good sense, changing a system that's been in place for 18 years, and that is connected to every other country's system. nevermind that i actually think DST is bullshit and if any change should be made to it, it ought to be abolished and companies should be encouraged to offer flex time (since that has a whole lot of other positive side effects), and people should be rewarded for keeping their energy bills low.
whoever came up with this should be tied to an anthill, covered with honey. i wonder if anyone has calculated the approximate worldwide cost for the switch. not like the US would care, really. we ought to boycott their idiocies. but even internally, that's a lot of software and gadgets that'll have to be changed. i almost feel sorry for the airlines.
small saving grace is that apparently as part of the new law, the secretary of energy has nine months after the enactment of the act to report to congress the impact the change in daylight saving time would have on future energy consumption in the us. hello! how about doing studies before signing something into law?
[edit: daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time ...]
whoever came up with this should be tied to an anthill, covered with honey. i wonder if anyone has calculated the approximate worldwide cost for the switch. not like the US would care, really. we ought to boycott their idiocies. but even internally, that's a lot of software and gadgets that'll have to be changed. i almost feel sorry for the airlines.
small saving grace is that apparently as part of the new law, the secretary of energy has nine months after the enactment of the act to report to congress the impact the change in daylight saving time would have on future energy consumption in the us. hello! how about doing studies before signing something into law?
[edit: daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time, daylight SAVING time ...]
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on 2005-08-09 06:05 (UTC)Be careful who you're tying to that anthill. Down here, we've been crushing on Benjamin Franklin for two years now as our favorite Founding Father, and DST was his idea.
Phew, and they fixed the one thing about it that really irked me, which is that it the fall shift was going to be over Thanksgiving weekend. I mean, duh, the day after Thanksgiving everyone goes to the mall at 5:30 and you don't want the sun to rise until 8:30? Dumbasses. Except that they pushed it to only the first weekend in November which means that kids have an extra hour of evening daylight to trick-or-treat.
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on 2005-08-09 06:57 (UTC)i know franklin was the person who originally thought of DST -- clearly even smart people can have idea that're not up there with their best. however, aside from old ben's bones having long since been gnawed off, i mean to stake out the person whose idea was to change it now.