daylight savings rant

[merchimerch]

Argh. There is no saving daylight, one can only move it around in relation to the time of day. And when that happens, I get cranky, everyone gets thrown off, people are late or early (depending on which time of year), and things get all messed up.

I do not like waking up at 7 a.m. in the dark, when I've been waking up to sunrise or brighter for the past month or so. It is now almost 7:30 and I am well-slept but groggy and bleary-eyed because the government likes to f*ck with its citizenry's circadian rhythms.

We are not farmers and no longer have an agriculturally based economy, or agro industries that even rely on work being accomplished during daylight hours. Plus according to wikipedia, DST doesn't actually result in saving energy and might actually cause us to use slightly more gas. Why do we do this?

(And no, I'm not planning on moving to Arizona or Saskatchewan just because they don't observe DST)

Comments

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

The WSJ reported that Indiana (which used to not observe DST, but started to two years ago) has proven statistically, with hard numbers, that observing DST causes a huge uptick in fuel and energy consumption. People are home during daylight hours and therefore consume way more AC.