Daylight Saving--Movie Trailer

[westen44]

I accidentally discovered this and was pleasantly surprised. 

[Dave W]

 

DST is like sawing off one end of a board, gluing it to the other end and thinking it's a longer board.

From the YT description: "This November, they call it Daylight Saving but the thing that needs saving...is us..."

Someone ought to explain to them that November is the end of DST, not the start.

[westen44]

DST is like sawing off one end of a board, gluing it to the other end and thinking it's a longer board.

From the YT description: "This November, they call it Daylight Saving but the thing that needs saving...is us..."

Someone ought to explain to them that November is the end of DST, not the start.

I think the people who made the video were aware of that.  But whoever wrote the description might not have known.  The board analogy is a good way of looking at the daylight saving time issue. 

[Basvarken]

The idea of DST is not to save time, but to save energy.

[drbassman]

It's a waste of time if you ask me.

[gearHed289]

That was awesome!

[uwe]

It's a  crap idea, also against nature and more importantly against my internal clock. I hate it.

[westen44]

That was awesome!

It isn't Monty Python, but it's pretty funny for what I can assume are only amateurs. 

[uwe]

"DST is like sawing off one end of a board, gluing it to the other end and thinking it's a longer board."

Indeed. It always amazed how a few people can get together and decide that what is to all accounts and purposes 5 pm, with good reason, should now be irresponsibly called 6 pm. As if. Besides, I like dusk and I like night.

And, hey(l), Hitler invented it!!! On the eve of WW II with his radio statement "We've been firing back since 5:45 an!!!" he not only lied about who was actually firing "back" (Poland was), but also about the time: Acts of war had begun at 4:45 am, one hour earlier. Hitler, a (very) late riser by nature, didn't have much experience with early morning hours - other than going to bed during them!

[Dave W]

The idea of DST is not to save time, but to save energy.

That's the theory. It became a national law here after the early 70s oil shortage (when we were told the world would run out of oil by 1979  ) ) The energy savings was estimated to be a whopping 1/2 of one percent, and that was considered enough to force it on everyone unless a state opted out. Most of that little saving was supposed to be through less use iof residential lighting, which is a really small part of energy use anyway.

Problem is, there's never been any real-world evidence that it saves any energy.

[uwe]

It's supposed to actually cost even more (and that is not including the cost of the adjustment twice a year). When it was introduced in Indiana comparatively late, energy consumption rose by 1% as there was more early morning heating and more late afternoon and evening air conditioning. It is a silly practice.

The effect of "less lighting energy consumption with daylight around" is today even more negligible than in the past due to the introduction of energy saving light bulbs etc.

[amptech]

I've done my share for the environment - no more active pickups for me