I friggen hate daylight saving – it is simply another social policy for which there is no evidence…
One hundred years after Congress passed the first daylight saving legislation, lawmakers in Florida this week passed the “Sunshine Protection Act,” which will make daylight saving a year-round reality in the Sunshine State.
If approved by the federal government, this will effectively move Florida’s residents one time zone to the east, aligning cities from Jacksonville to Miami with Nova Scotia rather than New York and Washington, D.C.
The cost of rescheduling international and interstate business and commerce hasn’t been calculated. Instead, relying on the same overly optimistic math that led the original proponents of daylight saving to predict vast energy savings, crisper farm products harvested before the morning dew dried and lessened eye strain for industrial workers, Florida legislators are lauding the benefits of putting “more sunshine in our lives.”
It’s absurd – and fitting – that a century later, opponents and supporters of daylight saving are still not sure exactly what it does. Despite its name, daylight saving has never saved anyone anything. But it has proven to be a fantastically effective retail spending plan.
More here – Smithsonian.com
I hate it too – either leave the clocks where they are now, leave them at winter time or move them 1/2 hour toward winter time and leave them there
… but I like it cos it allows me more light-hours to do stuff I enjoy doing (like gardening, walking dogs, etc.) before or after a day job. Although one may as well just wake up an hour earlier before work, it wouldn’t be otherwise possible to have an extra hour of daylight for my own stuff after ASX closes 🙂
There isn’t any daylight saving in Western Australia, why don’t come and live here?
As for what daylight saving does, I’m told that the change from summer to winter time and back again correlates well with an increase in road accidents.