The New Daylight Savings Time a Waste of Time?
Okay, I am a little bit biased towards the new daylight savings time dates. I don't like them, plain and simple. Not the dates themselves, but the fact they had to change.
That is why I am going to be all over this latest article called Early U.S. Daylight Savings a bust in power savings.
There is a quote in there as follows:
"We haven't seen any measurable impact," said Jason Cuevas, spokesman for Southern Co., one of the nation's largest power companies, echoing comments from several large utilities.
I work in the technology sector and their are a lot of systems that needed to be upgraded. Some are simple patches, but that isn't the case for everyone. Some systems required major upgrades and serious amount of testing done.
I am all for saving the environment, but I am wondering how much thought actually went into this and if the amount of money spent by organizations to prepare for this change was ever considered. Speaking of environment, I drove myself back into work an extra day to work on it, so the lights of my office and the fuel I burned to get back to work are added into the mix. I was expecting them to say there was a marginal improvement. This wouldn't be enough to cover the cost and bad side effects this year, but pay off in years to come. This makes it sound like it may never pay off.
I do hope that their are some good, solid long term effects from this. Perhaps we will need to wait until the fall to see it as well. Hopefully they don't switch back, unless they find out it is actually worse.
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Original Post: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
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