how could more daylight be bad?
Jul. 22nd, 2005 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonThis is going to screw up every single computer system, from airline scheduling to electrical generating systems to PDAs, that automatically compensate for daylight savings time based on the day of the year. Some will be successfully patched in time, others we'll just find out about when they fail. That's not necessarily a show-stopper -- there may be reasons good enough to go through this (energy conservation, for instance), but I can find no evidence they've actually thoroughly considered the hardships or the technical issues. And "kids get more daylight on Halloween" is *not* a reason to pass a law like this. Sheesh.
Lawmakers move to extend daylight-saving time (subhed: Measure part of energy bill)
Friday, July 22, 2005; Posted: 9:08 a.m. EDT (13:08 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An agreement was reached Thursday to extend daylight-saving time in an effort to conserve energy, but not to the extent the House approved in April.
House and Senate negotiators on an energy bill agreed to begin daylight-saving time three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and extend it by one week to the first Sunday in November. The House bill would have added a month in the spring and another in the fall.
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Lawmakers move to extend daylight-saving time (subhed: Measure part of energy bill)
Friday, July 22, 2005; Posted: 9:08 a.m. EDT (13:08 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An agreement was reached Thursday to extend daylight-saving time in an effort to conserve energy, but not to the extent the House approved in April.
House and Senate negotiators on an energy bill agreed to begin daylight-saving time three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and extend it by one week to the first Sunday in November. The House bill would have added a month in the spring and another in the fall.
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