Daylight Savings DST

[nutnspecial]

Hmmm, daylight savings . .
. . nighttime savings - seems to be a matter of perspective.
Following that direction, what's the big deal with it in the first place? How much do you know about it?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country


Yeah, yeah, we mostly know it is followed at least partially by 70 countries around the world, and is said to be first thunk up by Ben Franklin. . . . We know we have to reset our clocks X1 Hour bi-annually in these certain areas to maintain relevance in 'time accuracy' with our surrounding humans.

Is DST worth thinking about?
What are the pros and cons of DST?
Why only these areas, and why an hour?




Just in the wiki linked above there is a great initial start. I particularly found interest in the first implementation, the US's history with it, and argument in pro's and con's. Here's additional info, some more neutral than others, and likely just a nick in the surface.

http://www.techinsider.io/daylight-savings-time-bad-health-effects-sleep-2016-3

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/health/daylight-saving-time-health-effects/

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-debate.html

http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2010/03/lets_turn_off_d.html

http://qz.com/357042/time-zone-deviants-part-ii-dissenters-and-disrupters/

I feel little risk in spoiling your perspective, or potential objectivity or participation by stating that I cannot help but find DST quite arbitrary, and basically ridiculous. What about nature I ask? Why do I have to 'save daylight' at the cost of my experience of natural time's annular smooth flow?

I wonder if other's here agree or disagree, or have given the idea much more thought than just in passing.

 

[Dauntless]

I don't want to sit and read all those links that probably don't say anything new. What I recall learning is that Kaiser Wilhelm came up with it to save energy in WWI Germany. That's an entirely different energy profile than today, not just in there being less usage but because so much was generated on site at the time.

In the 1970's the U.S. had year 'round daylight savings. Huge claims of all this energy savings that were disputed by some 'Experts' who said those were synthetic numbers and it was just another boondoogle for the government to pretend they were on top of things. Parents complained that their kids were walking to school in the dark. (Driving them would use up more energy, right?) Year 'round DST was eventually tossed out, but it has been extended so that 'Standard' is no longer standard.

Something tells me that it must not work or we wouldn't be doing it.

 

[LockH]

Clocks spring ahead soon: Read 5 ways it went terribly wrong:
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/n...-daylight-saving-time-went-badly-wrong/80167/

Passengers on a 35-mile bus ride from Steubenville, Ohio, to Moundsville, West Virginia, passed through seven time changes during their 40 minutes on the bus.