Did Congress ever follow through with extending Daylight Savings Time?

[Missy M]

I haven't heard anything more about this.

[fasttense]

1. I've been wondering the same thing.

I know big oil got all the tax breaks they so desperately needed since their profits are so high, but I thought we got a couple of weeks extra of day light savings time out of that energy bill. It ain't much but since the repukes have destroyed this country, what else can you expect.

[RC]

2. Why would we want that?

Let's eliminate DST altogether. It is nothing more than distorting reality, deluding a populous into believing the sun rises an hour later and sets an hour later.

[TahitiNut]

6. Indeed. We should all rely on a sundial standard!

Solar time is the only reasonable standard. It's God's way. All else is artifice.

[berni_mccoy]

8. Global warming

[OhioChick]

3. I believe so.......... Not until 2007

The bug in daylight savings time
IDG News Service 9/19/05

Stacy Cowley, IDG News Service, New York Bureau
A new law that extends daylight savings time (DST) by four weeks means programmers will once again need to check their software code for potential problems in handling a calendar adjustment.

The measure, approved as part of energy legislation this summer, would shift the start of DST from April back to March--and move its end from October to November--most likely beginning in 2007. Those extra four weeks will save energy--the equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil a day, according to legislators backing the change. But it may also trip up applications and gadgets programmed to automatically handle DST hours based on the schedule the United States has kept for nearly two decades.

Summer time changes, observed in patchwork fashion around the world, have always been an annoyance for programmers and systems administrators: Online support groups are full of work-arounds and suggestions for DST-related glitches.

http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/050920daylightbug/

[converted_democrat]

4. You' re correct, it starts in 2007. n/t

[etherealtruth]

5. Thanks for the info ...

I can't imagine that , in the end, this will help anything.

I sincerely wish "they" would just pick a time and stick with it.

[lectrobyte]

7. I'm with you. It does seem kind of silly, and I never figured out how it

was supposed to save energy. If anything, I probably use more energy because of DST. So I've never quite understood the theory behind it, anyone know?

The reason I think I use more energy because of DST is that my partner and I work, and the house is basically empty during the day 5 days a week, and the AC is programmed for higher temps then. But since we get home, and have that extra hour of daylight, the AC has to work more to cool the house from the time we are home than if we weren't on DST since it would be getting dark an hour sooner. We probably use less lights on DST, but I'm betting AC uses much more juice than a few lamps.

[etherealtruth]

9. I think the benefit hearkens back to a "simpler" time

Before AC, TV's in "every room" , computers ... I can't see how it will have any possible benefit in this day and time.

I also have a strong personal bias against these time changes ... I despise them and really have a difficult time adjusting.

[lectrobyte]

10. I'm with you. I figure if this Congress is passing it, it must be helping

Corporate America somehow, I just haven't figured out how yet.