No proof Daylight Saving Time saves electricity

[singular_me]

There’s no proof Daylight Saving Time saves electricity, so why do we even bother?

9th March 2015

.................... A paper published in 2014 in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization sheds some light on why this might be. The short version seems to be that daylight saving time seems to change people’s behavior. The authors of the paper looked at data from the American Time Use Survey, a giant, federally administered national study on how Americans spend their time. They looked at more than 88,000 survey responses between 2003 and 2011 of people who answer on a weekday one week before or after the DST went into effect. “We see that on average individuals sleep for 15–20 min less and spend most of that extra time awake and at home. This will encourage additional use of both lighting and heating energy during that–colder and darker–period,” they wrote of the DST shift in the Spring, when impacts were the most pronounced.

In other words, some of the energy conservation benefit of having more hours of daylight in the afternoon, could be eaten up by early morning electricity and heat use. The paper takes pains to point out that their paper doesn’t tell us conclusively that DST doesn’t save energy, it does illuminate why the expected benefits might not be showing up.

“Slowly people are realizing that the energy savings is not there,” says Alison Sexton, one of the co-authors on the 2014 paper, on the subject of what research suggests about DST. “So is there reason to go on?”

full
http://qz.com/357821/theres-no-proof-daylight-savings-time-saves-electricity-so-why-do-we-even-bother/

[aeondaze]

Besides, it fades curtains!

[singular_me]

evidence of another death cult hoax (bold).
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Daylight Saving Time: AKA War Time
Mar 7, 2015

Early this Sunday at 12 am, many Americans will be setting their clocks ahead one hour as the Daylight saving time 2official daylight saving time (DST) returns. However, many people here in the U.S. are unaware why we change our clocks forward at this time of year.

Contrary to popular belief, this is not done for farmers or just so we get an extra hour of sunlight in the evening as we head into the spring. The reality is that farmers are the number one critics of changing the time, and people's biological clocks get thrown out of whack for weeks when their bodies have to forcibly adjust to this unnatural time change.

The true reason why we have daylight saving time is because of war and saving the governments money. It is also a more friendly alternative phrase to the original meaning which was "War Time."

We had begun this practice under the Standard Time Act of 1918 as part of the US War Time Act during World War I, a wartime measure to conserve energy resources and fuel.

We Americans actually got the idea from the Germans who started daylight saving time on April 30, 1916 in order to conserve electricity during the war. Just a few months later, the United Kingdom followed suit by introducing “summer time, ” and in America in 1918 War Time was officially instituted into law.

One of our nation's founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin had written a satirical essay in 1784 which he calculated that the regime of the Parisian warriors marching through Paris could save the modern-day equivalent of $200 million for the economy simply by waking up at dawn.

That is a heck of a lot of money the government saves by changing the time. I imagine they must save billions of dollars today.

http://gnosticwarrior.com/daylight-saving-time.html

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First, a bit of history.

Benjamin Franklin is credited with first coming up with the idea to maximize daylight. He’s said to have realized he could rely less on expensive candles by rising an hour earlier. (Via Biography Channel)

But it wasn’t for another 200 years or so that Germany introduced the concept during World War I to help cut coal consumption. (Via Discovery)

Some say other countries followed suit as a way to help out farmers. Giving them more daylight to farm meant more time in the fields. Or so the story goes. (Via YouTube / Nick Welker)

Thing is, it was the sun, not the clock, that determined the farmers’ schedules. Farmers complained their milking cows didn’t easily adapt to the time change. To this day, most farmers say they see no benefit. (Via Dairy Farming Today)
more
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/national/daylight-saving-time-does-it-cost-more-it-saves/nbhLb/

[Horn]

Think they would've saved more time, by agreeing only to set it a 1/2 an hour then leave it there.

If u add up all the time it took to change clocks within 100 years.

[EE_]

Think they would've saved more time, by agreeing only to set it a 1/2 an hour then leave it there.

If u add up all the time it took to change clocks within 100 years.

That idea is so fucking simple, it would work. But government is in the business of making everything not simple.
Are you deliberately trying to put hard working government people out of work?

[BrewTech]

If the State decrees something should be mandatory or prohibited, it is because the mandate or prohibition results in generating higher revenues for the State.

The State is in the business of maintaining the health of the State. That's it.

[Horn]

Where's Sui Juris?

We need his input on what the implications would be on permanent governing structures.

Afterall, someone needs to set the date that all this occurs, it cannot be voluntarily arbitrary. lol


When do the clocks change?

The clocks go forward29 March



Year
Clocks go forward
Clocks go back


2014
30 March
26 October


2015
29 March
25 October


2016
27 March
30 October


Add clock changes in the UK to your calendar (ICS, 5KB) (https://www.gov.uk/when-do-the-clocks-change/united-kingdom.ics)© Crown copyright (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/our-services/crown-copyright.htm)

[EE_]

Where's Sui Juris?

We need his input on what the implications would be on permanent governing structures.

Afterall, someone needs to set the date that all this occurs, it cannot be voluntarily arbitrary. lol

You only IMAGINE there is an Authority

[kiffertom]

didnt bush II make DST longer thinking it would save us a lot of energy? they saw it actually made us consume more?

[Horn]

You only IMAGINE there is an Authority

God is apparently not on the "U.S. citizen's" side,

if he were the U.S. would've been positioned nearer to the equator.

No need for it here, everything stays the same.

[Twisted Titan]

Are there not 2 states that do not recognize DST?

[mick silver]

seen on the local news more people die when they change the time around for and hour . never heard of this before ................. Your Health and Daylight Saving TimeDST can affect both your body clock and health. Studies show that there is an increase in both heart attacks and road accidents the days after clocks are set forward one hour in Spring.
http://c.tadst.com/gfx/750x500/mother-and-kid-sleeping.jpg?1
DST gives an hour extra in bed in the Fall.A DST switch can disrupt sleeping patterns for adults and children.©bigstockphoto.com/RadistSetting your clock forward one hour for Daylight Saving Time (http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/) (DST) means losing one hour of sleep on the Sunday morning.
Disrupts the body clockAlthough people adjust differently to less sleep, and some people feel the adverse affects more than others, there are some common issues that setting your clocks for Summer Time (http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/summer-time.html) may cause.


It can feel a little harder to get out of bed on Monday morning after springing forward (http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/spring-forward-fall-back.html) one hour on the Sunday morning.
It may be difficult to get to bed at the normal time on Sunday night after the start of DST.
Children may feel tired and cranky for several days after an hour's change in their bedtime routines.

Little by littleThere are some simple ways of making it easier to handle the hour change.


Set your alarm to wake up a little earlier than usual on the Saturday and Sunday before the DST switch. This makes it easier to get out of bed on Monday morning.
Eat a healthy breakfast first thing. Food also tells your body it is the start of the day.
The light, and especially the sunlight (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunrise.html) helps to adjust your body clock.
Help your child adjust by changing bedtime to a little bit earlier the week before the time change.

The Pros and Cons of DST (http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-debate.html)
More heart attacksBeing tired can decrease productivity, concentration and general well-being. Several studies also link DST to increased risk of heart attacks, road accidents and sleep problems:


A Swedish study in 2008 found that the risk of having a heart attack increases in the first three days after switching to DST
Similarly, the risk decreases after setting the time back to Standard Time in the fall.
Traffic accidents increase on the Monday following the start of DST. Tired drivers is the main reason.
For persistent problems, taking supplements of the sleep hormone Melatonin may help. These should be prescribed by a doctor.

Topics: Daylight Saving Time (http://www.timeanddate.com/topics/daylight-saving-time)

[chad]

i'm a huge fan of it. i could care less if it saves money, electricity, etc. it's a psychological motivator for me to get more shit done outside.

[Camp Bassfish]

Are there not 2 states that do not recognize DST?

Arizona and Indiana I believe.....

*edit Just Arizona I guess. Indiana observes it now as well.

[ximmy]

I thought daylight savings started because the train robber barons changed the time so they could meet their schedules?

[singular_me]

I also like to get more things done but it does bother me greatly that the NWO is able to cash in on this aspect of our/my life/ves.. another area that doesnt concern many people and one wonders why the NWO gets more powerful by the years.

[Glass]

In the days before everyone had their own air conditioned cave this made a lot of sense. You avoided some part of the heat of the day. People stayed out side "later" into the evening, more people might have cooked outside.

I think most of Australia does DLS except here in the west. Means we are sn extra hour behind the east. Give you a small window to do business with them. Doesn't matter so much now it's all emails and web sites. I don't like it much my self but it would be better with less time difference east to west. Maybe we are the only ones not on a war footing.

[Carl]

DST is meant to discombobulate people and make the more susceptible to suggestion