On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:23:58 -0500, Allan Kielstra wrote: >The start date and end date for DST was adjusted sometime in the decade of the >2000s. ... > 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States#2005.E2.80.932009:_Second_extension
> ... Again, this was done as an energy saving scheme. I can't find the > evidence of it at the moment but I recall another instance of the law of > unintended consequences. Apparently, (at least in the US) early in the new > DST period, a fair number of people got home from work while it was quite > light and used the opportunity to drive to a mall or place of entertainment. > As a result energy consumption actually went up in the first weeks. (Again, > this may be apocryphal. Still, I found it a bit amusing.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
