{"id":614,"date":"2007-03-10T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/index.php\/abolish-daylight-saving-time\/"},"modified":"2009-02-03T16:20:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T21:20:29","slug":"abolish-daylight-saving-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/abolish-daylight-saving-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Abolish Daylight Saving Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So-called Daylight Saving Time doesn&#8217;t save <strong>anything<\/strong>. It costs the USA hundreds of millions, if not billions, in lost productivity and wasted man-hours as people fiddle with clocks, miss appointments, correct scheduling errors, and otherwise observe this completely fatuous ritual.<\/p>\n<p>It most certainly does not save electricity. This isn&#8217;t the 1940s: and homes and businesses keep their lights and heat on throughout the day, regardless of the time displayed on the clock. It doesn&#8217;t save lives: studies have shown that it actually costs lives as people&#8217;s sleep schedules are disrupted for days, causing an increase  in traffic accidents. It doesn&#8217;t help farmers: farmers rise with the sun. It doesn&#8217;t help children: is it better for them to be going back and forth to school in the dark in the afternoon, when people are wide awake, or in the morning, when people are still groggy from having their sleep disrupted by this foolish Daylight Saving Time? In the middle of winter, it&#8217;s dark in the morning and in the evening <em>anyway<\/em>! So what does so-called Daylight Saving Time &#8220;save&#8221;? Nothing! It <strong>costs<\/strong>, and it costs us dearly.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to put an end to this ridiculous ritual. Write, call, <em>and<\/em> email your federal and state representatives (DST is a federal scheme, but states can opt out of it), and tell them to <strong>stop screwing around with America&#8217;s clocks<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So-called Daylight Saving Time doesn&#8217;t save anything. It costs the USA hundreds of millions, if not billions, in lost productivity and wasted man-hours as people fiddle with clocks, miss appointments, correct scheduling errors, and otherwise observe this completely fatuous ritual. It most certainly does not save electricity. 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