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Daylight 'Saving' Time... |
Problem: Having just wasted an hour running around the house and the office switching a dozen clocks back to standard time, I can assure you there are no savings in Daylight Saving Time (DST). Missed appointments caused by the switch to DST are problematic and unproductive. The touted energy savings are a joke. Official studies regularly contradict each other. And any businessman that knew they would save energy just by opening an hour earlier in the summer wouldn't need the government's approval to do so. But the additional loss of life and limb that occurs twice a year due to accidents caused by less sleep on the Monday after a DST switch, and traveling home from work or school after the sudden switch to earlier darkness makes the whole concept unacceptable. Solution: The fixing of the measure of time, among other measures, is one area the Federal government is responsible for handling according to the Constitution: 'To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;'. So naturally, the government takes the dumbest, most expensive, disruptive and stressful approach possible, and has us jumping through time-adjustment hoops on a semi-annual basis. The obvious solution is to follow most of Australia, South America, Africa and southeast Asia and eliminate DST. Questions: · Can you think of any reason to keep DST? |