Grr on DST anyway...

[dianec42]

I note from the wikipedia article on Daylight Saving Time that the US is going to extend DST *even more* in 2007. What lunacy! I swear we're doing it on purpose just to see if Europe will follow us over this new cliff.

It's bad enough I have to wake up in the dark for a few weeks a year (especially at this latitude!). Now they want to make people even sleepier and grumpier! Oh yes, that'll help. Blech.

(As an aside, I love how the article pedantically points out that "daylight savings time" with the extra 's' is technically incorrect, then goes on to use the phrase itself at least once. I (heart) Wikipedia.)

Comments

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

Imagine how I feel -- my workplace lets us out early on Fridays for several months out of the year to accommodate the practicing Jewish management and staff. Extending DST next year is going to rob me some of these early outs. Grumble.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Interesting article. I've regularly heard the claim of the pro-BST/DST lobby that it would save energy; they don't tell you about the extra energy expenditure in air conditioning and cars for going shopping and suchlike.

[usqueba.livejournal.com]

DST makes me cranky. It's bad enough the days are shorter but throw a time change into the mix >;(

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

I like summer time, it's going off of it in the Fall and losing an hour of day light in the evening that I don't like.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

La la la, I'm in Hawai'i, where we don't DO that kind of nonsense. But I'll be in LA tomorrow.