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From a New York Times op-ed: Recently, however, we were able to conduct a study in Indiana, where daylight time was instituted statewide only in 2006. […] We found that daylight time caused a 1 percent overall increase in residential electricity use, though the effect varied from month to month. The greatest increase occurred in late summer [...]
Back when Congress was debating shifting the start and end of DST, I expressed a lot of skepticism over their reliance of a 30-plus year old back-of-the-envelope analysis regarding DST reducing energy consumption. It’s looking like I was right, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal (free link): Up until two years ago, only 15 [...] 
For those of you who have clocks that are smart enough to self-adjust for daylight saving time, but were built before Congress in its infinite wisdom decided to change the DST rules in the false hope of energy savings…. today is not the end of DST. We have one more week to go. However, I am [...] |
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