[Info-vax] EU will abandon daylight savings time in 2021

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/5/2019 12:49 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 4/5/19 11:48 AM, Baldrick wrote:
>> Didn't the US adopt different dates for "energy saving"? Is that ruled 
>> out now with better efficiency LED lights? Europe effectively banned 
>> incandescent lighting.
> 
> I have heard this before.  Supposedly the idea started with
> Ben Franklin to conserve on candle use.  Then in more modern
> times to conserve energy.  In both cases it really doesn't
> make any sense at all.  Who in Ben Franklin's day or ours
> today does not start their day before the sun comes up and
> not end it till long after the sun has gone down.  All DST
> has ever done is shift the daylight period in regards the
> wall clock.  It has never provided more daylight and thus
> a savings of whatever means was used to generate artificial
> light.  I'm retired and I still rise before the sun and go
> to bed long after the sun has departed.

Sunrise and sunset depends on location and time of year.

If we pick a random location like Pennsylvania USA then
at midsummer the sun raises around 5:30 with DST and 4:30
without DST. I suspect there are people in Pennsylvania that
get up later than that.

Arne