This is one for the books.

"airman" wrote in message
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Would extending daylight savings time give us more daylight?

See Rep. Ed Markey's comments:

Depends on your perspective. The quote sounds really stupid, like
the farmer that sued the government for changing the day and making his
crops fail, or the dairy operator whose cows went berserk and didn't give
the milk at the assigned (DST) time.
Personally, I don't particularly like daylight savings time in the first
place. But, considering the logic of shifting the clock hands so more
daylight appears at the end of the day does make sense in conserving
electricity. Ask your municipality what are the costs for street lighting
and it won't make any difference over the year. But if all the house lights
don't go on for another hour into the evening, the energy savings could be
substantial.
There's two problems here. Hardly anybody understands the "savings" part
of DST, and legislators like Markey make stupid statements -- or, the
statement is taken out of context.

"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote in message news:x3g5e.889$hB6.333@trnddc06...
Depends on your perspective. Personally, I don't particularly like daylight savings time in the first
place.

That's about the only thing I agree with in this discussion. I don't like DST at all. It is an outdated primitive way to
control peoples actions. If you want more daylight at the end of your day, get up earlier!

"Blueskies" wrote

If you want more daylight at the end of your day, get up earlier!

That assumes you have control (many people do not) over your assigned
working hours. You know what assuming means.
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Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in message ...

"Blueskies" wrote

If you want more daylight at the end of your day, get up earlier!

That assumes you have control (many people do not) over your assigned
working hours. You know what assuming means.
--
Jim in NC



Then the employer should work with their folks to set the hours, rather than having the gov't mandate it for all...

("Blueskies" wrote)
Then the employer should work with their folks to set the hours, rather
than having the gov't mandate it for all...


A: That'll never happen.

B: We like DST.

We really, really like DST - there, I just voted twice.


Mont and Black

We really, really like DST - there, I just voted twice.

Add two more votes.

In fact, I would vote to get rid of "regular" time (whatever that is) and
just keep it on "daylight saving time" -- since it's all arbitrary anyway.

Even here in Iowa, farmers are a tiny percentage. Why in the world we make
our whole world revolve around "milking time" anymore is just beyond me --
give me evening daylight!
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For the same reason our schools run September to June.

Jay Honeck wrote:
Even here in Iowa, farmers are a tiny percentage. Why in the world we make
our whole world revolve around "milking time" anymore is just beyond me --
give me evening daylight!

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:Fwv5e.31289$NW5.30582@attbi_s02...
Even here in Iowa, farmers are a tiny percentage. Why in the world we
make
our whole world revolve around "milking time" anymore is just beyond me --

They'll miss reruns of "Hee Haw".

In rec.aviation.piloting Jay Honeck wrote:
We really, really like DST - there, I just voted twice.

Add two more votes.

In fact, I would vote to get rid of "regular" time (whatever that is) and
just keep it on "daylight saving time" -- since it's all arbitrary anyway.

I agree! Let's keep DST in place all year around!

--- Jay




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On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 at 13:18:29 in message
Fwv5e.31289$NW5.30582@attbi_s02, Jay Honeck
wrote:

Even here in Iowa, farmers are a tiny percentage. Why in the world we make
our whole world revolve around "milking time" anymore is just beyond me --
give me evening daylight!

I believe in the UK it was claimed that it reduced road accidents
particularly to children coming home from school.
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David CL Francis