Can someone please explain to me... (PLEASE!!!)

[texas1928]

I guess I just do not understand.

How does changing Daylight Saving Times going to save energy.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Less use of lights/power in evenings by residences

as daylight will extend past 5 pm most places in winter for those extra weeks

[China_cat]

3. But what about those extra lights you have to use in the

morning when you get up and it's still dark?

Making DST about saving energy is just stupid, even without the extra month tacked on.

[texas1928]

4. But,

with the spring morning you still need lights, and in the fall it stays dark longer in the morning. So I don't see how it helps.

[redqueen]

2. Less use of lights & such, I think.

Seems reasonable...

[texas1928]

5. I can't see how.

In the spring the sun still sets pretty early. and in the fall it stays dark longer in the morning. So I do not see how it helps.

[Dhalgren]

7. The assumption is that the bulk of the population does not get

up early. There is the assumption that most people work "9-5", so most people will not be up before sunrise...

[MadHound]

6. It actually doesn't save a damn thing, never has

It is a feel good measure that a President can toss out there. It isn't as if they're shortening the length of the day, they're just monkeying around with the clock, and what time said clock will say when the sun goes down. For the vast majority of people, it will be a null sum equation. Money that you save in the evening by waiting until later to turn on your lights will be spent earlier in the morning to light up the morning darkness.

Despite all of the claims about Daylight Savings Time being for the farmers and such, what it really boils down to is that DST always has been and always will be for the 9-5 urban workers, so that they can have a little extra daylight at the end of the work day. When a farmer wants to work an extra hour in the heat of farm work, he is going to do it in the morning, when it is cool, not at the end of the day when the temp is still high.

Frankly I find all of this messing around with DST to be ridiculous. Set it at just one time setting, preferably just regular standard time, and leave it there. Switching back and forth messes people up, and cost this country money.

[WeRQ4U]

8. It will eliminate livestock confusion and give me more sunlight each day.

In North Dakota, the entire state is in Central Time, except for a little outcropping where I live, which is in Mountain Time. The state has always toyed with the notion of changing that little portion to Central just for the sake of uniformity, but the people in that area do not want to do it. One of the arguments made was that the farm animals would be confused. They also argued that without the extra hour, there would be less sunlight, and hence lower yields. I'm not joking.

So those are the reasons I'm going with.