[Info-vax] Time change

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Tue Mar 10 14:12:33 EDT 2009


In article <9bab4af7-a86a-434e-b7d0-5840d0c220e7 at c36g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
	sapienzaf <sapienza at noesys.com> writes:
> On Mar 10, 10:29 am, Joe Sewell <ultra... at spamcop.net> wrote:
>> In fact, I read something about one study that showed that "Daylight
>> Savings Time" actually causes *greater* energy consumption. (I'm not
>> sure if the article was referring to DST in general, or just to the
>> lengthening thereof.)
> I read "The Overworked American" by Dr. Juliet Schor many, many years
> ago and in it she argues that changing clocks has more to do with
> attempts at increasing worker productivity than it does with energy
> savings.

And how would screwing with our internal time clocks stand any chance
of increasing, as opposed to decreasing, our personal productivity?
Don't tell me, the government paid for that study, right?

bill

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