At 09:31 AM 2/8/2007, you wrote:
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.
Agreed. More boring.... if I were a kid. But since I am not, it gives me more time to get to the store and get that last bag of candy on Halloween night.
> 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.
Hmm... the last company I worked for started using the light "half on" when we started having rolling blackout. The policy has not changed. They also turn the AC off at 5:30pm (except where there are 24hr operations), all offices have motion sensitive lights. They also turned the thermostat up when the rolling blackouts started, but thankfully that ended when the blackouts did. I brought my laptop to the data center when they turned the thermostat up... that and worked from any place other than the office.
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
Neat ! Can fluorescent lights be dimmed ? Or do they just turn off different banks of lights ?
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