Cary Chleborad wrote: > > Politicians are idiots! How absurd for them to think that because the > numbers on the clock read differently, at the same (well approx.) solar > angle, that the laws of physics will change for them and somehow the > people will magically use less power!!!!
I can't understand why this summer time is handled in so emotional a manner. In Brazil it is always the same. Every year, when time is changed, people complain a LOT. This year several states went to the courts. What used to be confusing enough became more so as different judges made their decisions and appeals changed their decisions, etc. As to myself I L O V E daylight saving. Not only because it works (about 5% saving in Brazil, on the average) but mainly because it gives me a better quality of life. I am supposed to live my office at 6 PM but I usually do it much latter. On the summer I try to leave at 6 or so because I know I can go home and have about two hours more of day light. Instead of turning the TV on, turning several lights on I go walking or gardening or whatever. That explains why savings occurs. Of course, it does not work the same for everybody. The Brazilian Northern and Northeastern regions do not benefit at all (but would not lose either). In the Southern region (say, from latitude 20S to 34S) saving is much higher, up to 15% in the extreme South. But for me, what is more important is the fact that daylight saving is NATURAL. Since our ancestors as well as our primitive cousins around the world are governed by sunlight, it is quite clear to me that if left alone we would naturally follow a daylight saving scheme, because we would tend to awake up with the sunrise and sleep with sunset. I see no reason to treat this so emotionally. I can't understand why people have to complain so much because they have to shift their agenda one hour back or forth as DST enters and exits. Of course, this should not prevent politician to do what they SHOULD DO (but rarely do). - fernando -- From a country where it seems 70% of the inhabitants seem to react quite unreasonable against DST! > While they're on a roll they > should work at rounding PI down to make is simpler for the school > children to understand. > > -Cary > > P.S. I'm a crazy Californian. > > Ron Anthony wrote: > > > > All, > > > > The other day I heard on the radio that some politcians has proposed a 2 > > hour Daylight Savings Time offset to save energy. > > > > ++ron > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fernando Cabral Padrao iX Sistemas Abertos mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pix.com.br Fone Direto: +55 61 329-0206 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PABX: +55 61 329-0202 Fax: +55 61 326-3082 15º 45' 04.9" S (23 L 0196446/8256520) 47º 49' 58.6" W 19º 37' 57.0" S (23 K 0469898/7829161) 45º 17' 13.6" W ------------------------------------------------------------------
