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Rick Law:
Did you ever have the pleasure of dealing with regularly scheduled multiple long overnight batch jobs for an IT department or for a substantial IT setup during DST/EST change over?

Today's world is a technology driven world.  We have much stronger dependence on indoor lighting with much higher efficiency.  Is moving clock back and forth for daylight saving really saving anything or just waiting wasting people's energy in doing it?  If it saves, why not do it year-round.

29 out of 50 States in the USA decided to adopt year-round daylight savings time regardless of saving or not.  Now I no longer have multiple lengthy batch runs to worry about, but just a house full of clocks to deal with -- I still wish all 50 States will kill this EST/EST thing and the rest of the world would also.

What do you think?

EDIT: corrected a word, I mean "wasting" not "waiting"  (noticed it when I tried to refer back to exactly this point in a reply)

ataradov:
I don't understand. Currently there are only two states that don't change time - Arizona and Hawaii. A lot of states want to stop this stupidity, but it looks like it is constantly stalling for no obvious to me reason. It is a no-brainer that monotonic time is better.

jpanhalt:
It presumably served a purpose during the WWII war years.  You got off work when it was still light and didn't need headlights to drive home, and other conjured up reasons.  There was also double time (aka War Time)  in which the change was 2 hours.

Today, what might make more sense is fast time.  Turn the clocks ahead in Winter (from GMT) so 6 AM  local is really 7 AM solar time. That way kids waiting for school buses don't wait in the dark.

I am one of the majority who prefers standard time all year.  As some wise Native American reportedly said, only a white man would think removing an hour in the morning and adding it to the evening would lengthen the day.

themadhippy:
lets keep everyone happy an just move the clock forward half an hour,then leave it alone

rsjsouza:
Interesting that I have the same impression: it seems to be something that people hate across the board but it persists every year.

A few years ago Brazil abolished this nonsense and only the fanatic detractors of the current president threw a fit. The vast majority welcomed the change. There the nonsense was even more dramatic, as a tropical country does not have enough daylight variance throughout the year to justify such thing.

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