[OT, but important to remember] Fall back, Spring forward!

[MeepoTheMighty]

Re: Re: Re: Daylight Insanity Time

Well, in a word, no. Here in Arizona if people got home from work an hour earlier during the summer they'd have to turn their air conditioners down to a more comfortable temperature for an extra hour every day, something that would eat up way more energy than that extra hour of lights and tv at night. This is true of the entire sunbelt. More daylight in the afternoon/evening at home = more energy consumed. This in undoubtedly true in southern California as well, but they guy who wrote that article is up in Sacramento where the summer weather is considerably more mild.

With everyone moving to the sunbelt in the last 15 years or so, I would certainly like to see another study to see if there really is any kind of national savings at this point.

You turn your air conditioners down? I thought most people just left them at a comfortable setting and didn't touch them after that. Lord knows my dad would break my neck if I ever tried to touch the thermostat, let alone adjust it twice a day.

 

[Agback]

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Don't forget to turn all of your clocks and watches back one hour before going to bed tonight (Saturday)!

That was very bad advice, since where I live daylight saving started last night.

Not all the world is the USA, you know.

Regards,


Agback

 

[Agback]

Re: Bah I Say!

I want the sun to be straight up (well, at its highest point, the sun doesn't really do directly overhead this far from the equator) at noon!

Send to the Washington Naval Observatory for tables of the Equation of Time, because your desiderata are going to lead to days of unequal length.

It is only on the solstices and equinoxes that the Sun crosses the Prime Meridian at noon (mean solar time). If you were to plot the position of the Sun in the sky at noon (mean solar time) every day of the year the result would be a figure-8 shape.

Regards,


Agback

 

[Zappo]

...and the board's time is still wrong.

 

[Ferret]

*points.**laughs*

*Points and laughs*

 

[reiella]

Actually the barnyard animal should be encouraging a shift to Daylight Savings time.

Also, almost all of Hawaii doesn't use Daylight Savings either.

 

[Fast Learner]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Daylight Insanity Time

You turn your air conditioners down? I thought most people just left them at a comfortable setting and didn't touch them after that. Lord knows my dad would break my neck if I ever tried to touch the thermostat, let alone adjust it twice a day.

Aye, indeed we do. Years ago the local power companies used to air commecials about saving energy and they promoted keeping the thermostat at a comfortable setting day and night, like energy companies all over the country did. Then it turned out that keeping the temp about 5 degrees warmer while you were away saved a bunch of energy, even with the need to cool that extra 5 degrees when you turned it back down. This is because cooling with AC works on a curve: The difference betwee, say, keeping it 75 degrees inside all day and 80 degrees is a lot more than the difference between 80 and 85 (somewhat dependent on your AC equipment itself). All of this when it's 110-115 outside.