cnn.com— Use this explainer to help students understand the reasons for and history of daylight-saving time.What is daylight-saving time?
Mar 7, 2007View in Crawl 4
I think the part that bothers most people is the back-and-forth of it. Having lived through the 1970's daylight time year-around that was too freaky! However, a simple solution would be simply to set the clocks ahead 1/2 hour instead of one hour and leave them that way all year long. That way it wouldn't be quite as dark in the dead of winter mornings and we'd be rid of this infernal change back-and-forth. Too simple to be enacted, I suppose.
They used to do that in Indiana around Louisville, KY and Chicago, IL. Those were just two parts of Indiana that changed times with those areas so they matched up. It has always been like that. I lived in Terre Haute, IN on the border of Illinois and we never changed. You just learn to deal with it. I never saw it as a problem. Of course when I was in school the only reason we went to Illinois was to buy beer on Sunday but that's another stupid Indiana law.
Doing the math, it doesn't seem to save much energy during winter.If you wake up one hour late (Standard Time) during winter with the sunlight, you still stay one hour late at night wasting one hour of energy. If you wake up an hour earlier than Standard Time, you waste one hour of energy in the morning until the sun comes out.For summer, you do get to wake up an hour early with sunlight (Daylight Saving Time), and sleep one hour early, saving one hour less artificial light. This is better than sleeping one hour with sunlight (Standard Time), wasting one hour of energy in the evening.So why not just do year-round daylight saving time and just shift Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time?Then we don't have to change time any day of the year and still save the same amount of energy.
matriculatedMar 8, 2007
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helmsbMar 8, 2007
So half the year everything makes sense
plg6Mar 8, 2007
I think the part that bothers most people is the back-and-forth of it. Having lived through the 1970's daylight time year-around that was too freaky! However, a simple solution would be simply to set the clocks ahead 1/2 hour instead of one hour and leave them that way all year long. That way it wouldn't be quite as dark in the dead of winter mornings and we'd be rid of this infernal change back-and-forth. Too simple to be enacted, I suppose.
brobersMar 8, 2007
They used to do that in Indiana around Louisville, KY and Chicago, IL. Those were just two parts of Indiana that changed times with those areas so they matched up. It has always been like that. I lived in Terre Haute, IN on the border of Illinois and we never changed. You just learn to deal with it. I never saw it as a problem. Of course when I was in school the only reason we went to Illinois was to buy beer on Sunday but that's another stupid Indiana law.
qoleMar 8, 2007
a bushel and a peck... and a barrel and a heap...a barrel and a heap and I'm talking in my sleep about youuuu!
esquilaxMar 9, 2007
the reverse vampires? </milhouse>
skulljarMar 9, 2007
Daylight Wasting Time.... very funny indeed. I want daylight sausage time. And daylight naked time too.
scbalazsMar 9, 2007
And you'll be taller if you cut off your head and stand on it.Want to have more sunlight hours--GET UP EARLIER!
chumpchiefMar 9, 2007
@prockcoreAnd we'd save even more by doing both... yay?Dugg you up anyway.
tdot1980Mar 9, 2007
CNN has always been s**tty, dumbed-down news for Americans. What's changed? They're still poisoning minds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
teslozNov 1, 2009
Doing the math, it doesn't seem to save much energy during winter.If you wake up one hour late (Standard Time) during winter with the sunlight, you still stay one hour late at night wasting one hour of energy. If you wake up an hour earlier than Standard Time, you waste one hour of energy in the morning until the sun comes out.For summer, you do get to wake up an hour early with sunlight (Daylight Saving Time), and sleep one hour early, saving one hour less artificial light. This is better than sleeping one hour with sunlight (Standard Time), wasting one hour of energy in the evening.So why not just do year-round daylight saving time and just shift Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time?Then we don't have to change time any day of the year and still save the same amount of energy.