tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975161130020685883.post5550545367588983458..comments2024-03-27T03:19:09.202-04:00Comments on HyMark High Spots: "Darned Time Change"Ed Winklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07299533401041542458noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975161130020685883.post-42680908597306268962014-03-09T19:24:23.660-04:002014-03-09T19:24:23.660-04:00From Chris or Iseedit "A 2009 Michigan State...From Chris or Iseedit "A 2009 Michigan State University published by the American Psychological Association study showed that DST has adverse effects on the American workplace.<br /><br />"Following (the start and end of DST), employees slept 40 min less, had 5.7% more workplace injuries, and lost 67.6% more work days because of injuries than on non phase change days," explained the study, which looked at mining injuries between 1983 and 2006 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health."<br /><br />EdEd Winklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07299533401041542458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975161130020685883.post-86905530136832151462014-03-09T13:51:11.788-04:002014-03-09T13:51:11.788-04:00LOL, to think that the government would have gone ...LOL, to think that the government would have gone out of its way and mandate to interfere with our daily life is naive, ludicrous, and just libertarian, especially when you consider that by the 60s, Americans had already spontaneously switched to LED lightbulbs and massively installed solar panels to both reduce their electricity usage and carbon footprint. They didn't need any incentive to see the good common sense of it.<br /><br />No, you just got one letter wrong, the simple truth is that the government wanted to interfere with our dairy life, because it is well known that every March 9th, leap year or not, cows already wake up naturally exactly one hour earlier in most countries and states. It was a matter of adapting the human calendar to the cows' so that our butter could taste the same all year round.<br /><br />As a side-effect, DST was also very effective at making sure that people dumb enough to get lost in the wild could not find their way and reproduce this trait in the general population. Before DST, you could just point the hour hand of your watch to the Sun, and the median line between the hour hand and the 12 o'clock position on your watch gave you the direction of the South, which gave you by inference the three other cardinal points. Even before DST, some clever governments like France had already messed up this simple rule by advancing legal standard time one hour from Meridian time, so that you couldn't use the simple 12 o'clock. By now, most governments have banned analog watches with hands to make triple sure you had no way to find your direction.Chimelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08601975288198239103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975161130020685883.post-48467231368383423002014-03-09T10:48:40.427-04:002014-03-09T10:48:40.427-04:00That is one more thing I like about living in Sask...That is one more thing I like about living in Sask.. Same standard time all year. I fail to see how getting up an earlier in the morning is going to save me any electricity. I'd have to turn the lights on and use even more than I do now. Ralph Goffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04873610891410100788noreply@blogger.com