[BC] RE: DST vs Daytimers

[Brian Urban]

DST was originally Ben Franklin's idea.  Not one of his better ones.


On 8/21/06 7:33 AM, "Cowboy" <curt at spam-o-matic.net> wrote:

> On Monday 21 August 2006 07:56 am, Tom Taggart wrote:
>> I'll agree with Willie.
>> 
>> Moving up "daylight saving" time to March makes no sense except to some
> idiot politicians who waltz into the office around ten each day. It "saves"
> nothing, because most of us have to turn on extra lights to get up in the
> dark.
>> 
>> Especially, as Cowboy is aware, here in Ohio. On March 15, 2007, sunrise in
> Connecticut is at 6:05 AM (or 7:05 advanced time). Here in Ohio, sunrise goes
> from 6:45 to 7:45. I am up at 6:00 each morning.  Many local schools have
> buses out picking up the kids at 6:45, move to daylight time and kids are
> waiting in the dark.
>> 
>> This saves energy? Yea right.
> 
>  Please don't misunderstand .....
> 
>  Personally, I think Daylight "Savings" time is one of the dumbest things
>  to have ever come from the legislature, ever.
> 
>  It puts little kids in danger, more-so now that every other soccer-mom
>  in an SUV is paying more attention to their cell phone than what that
>  bump was.....
>  We could go on almost forever with what's wrong with DST, but that
>  never seems to stop Washington.
> 
>  IMHO a much better idea is to abolish DST forever.

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