Daylight-Savings Stupidity
July 24th, 2005
I’ve posted about this in the past (although, the posts aren’t around any more). I’ve always thought that DST was just silly, but apparently I’m in the minority, as Congress has just passed a bill to extend DST by four weeks.
Yay! Let’s give the people more of a stupid thing. Of all the great ideas Ben Franklin had, why, why, why did anybody listen to this one?
May 27th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I love DST. It means more biking and skating after work. Sure, we could change train schedules and meeting schedules and whatnot to be earlier, but changing the clocks twice a year is easier than that. Another way to look at it: any daylight that happens before about 7am is pretty much wasted. Realistically, we’re just not going to start waking up earlier to take advantage of it. Unless we trick ourselves into doing it by changing the clocks.
I view it as a clever hack to circumvent an otherwise intractable coordination problem (getting everyone to shift their schedules to not waste all that extra morning daylight).