> > So why does it matter? School safety, for one thing. Every year the number > of kids hit by cars at crosswalke has an inflection point in the fall and > spring when the time shift adds or subtracts an hour of daylight to their > morning walk to school. You could look it up -- it's real and it's > unequivocally associated with the start/stop of daylight savings time. >
On the flip side, it will apparently make Halloween safer (though, in my opinion, more boring) by extending the daylight in which kids go Trick or Treating. > So the government is saying that we'll time shift earlier and keep it > longer because saving corporations money on their energy bills is more > important than sending more kids to the hospital or their graves. I've always thought it was a bit of a scam, since I've never worked in any office building where the lights weren't "full on" regardless of the time. Gloomy morning or full noon, the lights above my head blaze(flicker) on. In this regard, one of the buildings on campus is interesting. It has mechanical drapes that automagically adjust for the amount of light coming in the windows as well as dimmers that vary the amount of overhead light the same way. -ajb -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
