Comments on: Daylight Wastings Time

By: Svein Olav Nyberg

Svein Olav Nyberg — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:19:01 +0000

Thiis is not a defence of DST, but there is a good historical explanation of it at webexhibits. Where I live, Norway, we have close to 24 hours of sun in the summer anyway, so that we don't get much extra sun (if any) by switching our sunny hours around. Also, since I work on very flexible time, I obey my internal clock more than I do the offical chronology.

By: Tom Lancaster

Tom Lancaster — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:26:22 +0000

I have always assumed that the instigators of daylight savings were morning people and in the evening went home to the 6 o’clock news and bed. Being of the opposite persuasion. I don’t find dragging my tired body out of my comfortable bed in the morning any less onerous whether it is daylight out or not. I have always maintained that a proper time to arise is when the sun is warm. If they have to change the time at all, I think they should change it the opposite way to the current method. Getting out of work at 5 PM in the dark would be much improved by an extra hour of daylight. The most pleasant time of the day in the summer is early evening which could be enjoyed more an hour earlier. Besides it must be a capitalist plot to make everyone leave the comfort of their air conditioned offices at the hottest time of day. Merely to save the company’s energy bill and send us all home to swamp-coolers. I am waiting in unfulfilled anticipation for the government to recompense me for the labor of changing 200 clocks to the new “correct time twice a year.

By: Carol Low

Carol Low — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:34:02 +0000

Hey, JOsh. Some of us recall when the feds instituted DST year-round in some misguided attempt to save energy. First and foremost: I HATE DST onprinciple because I like knowing that at noon the sun will be at the highest point. That is after all the point of the thing–the better to tell tome when lost in the woods with, my dear. If some folks want to stay up later inthe summer or go to bed earlier in the winter, so be it. But I like my clock to correspond relatively closely to the sun, thanks. Back to the past, though, the wonderful advantage the feds gleaned when they forced DST year-round was that I got to WAKE UP IN THE DARK, too. So I never saw the sun for an entire winter, basically. See, if 5 pm is light, then 6 am is dark.
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