"Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'..."


On Monday, Bush will sign a law to change Daylight Savings Time

I'm in a musical mood this weekend.

This law is an example legally mandated bad solution. The official reason is to save energy. Will that "savings" result in measurable savings for the average citizen? Or does it just complicate an already awkward annoyance?

Just for the record, Arizona, Hawaii, and parts of Indiana do not go through the twice-yearly ritual of time warps. I've always wondered if getting up an hour earlier for half the year is such an advantage, why not skip the whole clock reset thing and just get up?

Add the costs of creating a new Federal law to the increased inconvenience of changing Daylight Savings Time early, not to mention the original bother of setting clocks back and forward, and you really have to wonder what the point is.

Maybe it is no more than to establish the supremacy of the Federal government.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Sun - August 7, 2005 at 05:14 PM  Tag


 ◊  ◊   ◊  ◊ 

Random selections from NeoWayland's library



Pagan Vigil "Because LIBERTY demands more than just black or white"
© 2005 - 2009 All Rights Reserved