[Greenbuilding] [BULK] FYI - Daylight Savings Time Change

[Lawrence Lile]

What's driving this is a perception that "daylight squanderings" time
(as I call it) affects energy use, which is a Green issue.  

Deep analysis of Daylight Squanderings will show that is it an
unnecessary distraction, and that every argument for it is either
specious ("It helps farmers" when farmers don't care) or has a strong
counterargument (farmers milk cows at the same time every day, whether
the clock has changed or not).  I wish it would just go away, I can't
sleep for weeks after the Spring time change.  The effects on things
like energy use are complex, and tend to cancel out.  

Daylight Squanderings has actually been repealed more than 8 times in
the last 100 years, but it was always vetoed.  


Lawrence Lile, P.E., LEED AP


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Neal
Weisman
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:39 AM
To: greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
Subject: [BULK] [Greenbuilding] FYI - Daylight Savings Time Change
Importance: Low


   This is a heads up for anyone who doesn't already know about it.  I'm
a
   software developer and I just found out about it today.  I don't know
how it
   would impact your PCs if you don't update them but if this prevents
one
   person from having one headache. It's worth it.
   Congress( the opposite of progress) has changed the start & end dates
of
   Daylight Savings Time beginning in 2007.  It will now begin on the
second
   Sunday of March and end the first Sunday of November.  Those of you
that use
   a version of Microsoft Windows should go to
   [1]http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone/dst2007.[2]mspx to see
if you
   are impacted and how to get a fix for it.
   I apologize if it is inappropriate to post this here and if so
informed will
   not do so in the future.  I actually can't foresee doing this again.
This
   just strikes me as a rather arcane computer issue that's flying below
the
   radar of everyone I've mentioned it to.
   Neal Weisman
   Not in the field - just trying to get greener

References

   1. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone/dst2007.mspx
   2. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone/dst2007.mspx
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