Fuck Daylight Savings Time
Thats the thing, cant just leave it because power consumption varies throughout the year.scourge34 wrote:Well they could figure out which way saves the most power and leave it there.ek wrote:Well its in place to save power consumption along with other reasons I can not think of.
edit: I know it's supposed to save .01 % of the oil or someshit.
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Seems to me they have it backwards though. Making the shorter days end earlier, and the longer days end later. I would think that it would be more efficient to make the days last closer to the same as possible.
Admittedly I don't know the figures and all that on power usage, so maybe someone could give a quick summary on why they do it this way instead of trying to normalize the days length. I'm not trying to raise a big stink, just curiousity mainly. I would look it up, but I'm kinda pressed for time today.
Admittedly I don't know the figures and all that on power usage, so maybe someone could give a quick summary on why they do it this way instead of trying to normalize the days length. I'm not trying to raise a big stink, just curiousity mainly. I would look it up, but I'm kinda pressed for time today.
It doesn't really bother me either. I'm just getting a little more curious about it for some reason this time. Mostly it really screws with my work schedule. 8 to 10 hour days average in the winter, 12 to 17 average in the summer. So it's really screwing with my paycheck half the year.Law wrote:DLS never really bothers me.
You work 12 to 17 hour days in the summer?! What do you do?scourge34 wrote:It doesn't really bother me either. I'm just getting a little more curious about it for some reason this time. Mostly it really screws with my work schedule. 8 to 10 hour days average in the winter, 12 to 17 average in the summer. So it's really screwing with my paycheck half the year.Law wrote:DLS never really bothers me.
Thick, solid and tight in all the right places.
Well Service. Oilfield stuff. Mostly it's sunup to sundown. Starting this week it's gonna get hectic. Frankly I need to find something else anyway, I'm getting to old for this shit. :icon32:Law wrote:You work 12 to 17 hour days in the summer?! What do you do?scourge34 wrote:It doesn't really bother me either. I'm just getting a little more curious about it for some reason this time. Mostly it really screws with my work schedule. 8 to 10 hour days average in the winter, 12 to 17 average in the summer. So it's really screwing with my paycheck half the year.Law wrote:DLS never really bothers me.
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ok i always get REALLY confused when i try to think about DST - my brain has difficulty with these sorts of things (same thing with maps, directions, etc)
ok so my understanding of the rationale is that DST is done to save energy.
so let's say sunset is normally 5pm and work ends at 5pm. This means that you won't need artificial lighting to function at work coz the sun goes down right when work ends.
Now summer comes along, and sunset is at 6pm. But work still ends at 5pm. You now have an extra hour of sunlight to spare.
So why move the clocks foward??
I know it sounds intuitive that if u move the clocks forward, you'll match, coz 5pm+1hour = 6pm and sunset is at 6pm, but it actually seems the opposite!
Before DST adjustment, sunset is at 6pm and work ends at 5pm.
After DST adjustment, work still ends at 5pm (u dont' change work schedules, just the clocks), and sunset is now at 7pm!!
So now you have TWO extra hours of daylight.
Wouldn't it make sense to move the clocks backwards during summer??
That way, work ends at 5pm and sunset is at 5pm and all is matched.
ok so my understanding of the rationale is that DST is done to save energy.
so let's say sunset is normally 5pm and work ends at 5pm. This means that you won't need artificial lighting to function at work coz the sun goes down right when work ends.
Now summer comes along, and sunset is at 6pm. But work still ends at 5pm. You now have an extra hour of sunlight to spare.
So why move the clocks foward??
I know it sounds intuitive that if u move the clocks forward, you'll match, coz 5pm+1hour = 6pm and sunset is at 6pm, but it actually seems the opposite!
Before DST adjustment, sunset is at 6pm and work ends at 5pm.
After DST adjustment, work still ends at 5pm (u dont' change work schedules, just the clocks), and sunset is now at 7pm!!
So now you have TWO extra hours of daylight.
Wouldn't it make sense to move the clocks backwards during summer??
That way, work ends at 5pm and sunset is at 5pm and all is matched.
people want to party during summer!no, just san francisco. i had to enter those 730 values into an excel spreadsheet by hand, based off of some webpage. i was almost at the point of creating a little php script, but i preferred how mind numbing the data entry was.R00k wrote:Did you graph the times for any other cities, in different latitudes?mjrpes wrote:Isn't it odd that the earliest sunset is a month earlier than the latest sunrise? I would have thought they'd be in sync. tnf you know everything (science-wise, not MMORPG-wise) ... please explain why.
