Don't forget daylight savings :(
"The important reason (expansion of daylight-saving time) passed is to increase consumer spending," Downing says. "Congress is working on behalf of retailers."
The biggest business to benefit from daylight-saving time, according to Downing, has a sweet tooth. At this time next year, there will be one more hour of daylight trick-or-treating.
"The reason a week of daylight-saving time is being added in the fall is the American candy makers have been pressing for it for 35 years," Downing says.
Pros and cons of expanding daylight saving time
seems like they tried to motivate people to stop it :(
posted by Bird @ 11:23 PM
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What a funny post from someone who never even experiences DLS and lives close enough to the equator that the days are pretty much the same year in and year out. There are a lot of factors involved here that neither of these guys mention, but what a screwy debate and strange thing to stress over. Fact of the matter is that if you ask a good chunk of people around these parts (Colorado), where during standard time the sun is down between 4:30 and 5:30 P.M., they would tell you that it stinks. More sun equals more time outdoors, more time to interact with neighbors (hence more community), less time with the lights on (1 percent or not), eating outside, kids sleeping until 7 a.m. rather than 6 a.m. Sure we would still get some extra sunlight in the Summer with standard time, but the more the better. So why not just ditch standard time all together? I guess it is a matter of opinion, but at least we in Colorado can speak from experience.
The guy makes a claim that it will boost the candy makers. Maybe, but as it stands right now Easter takes the cake for candy sales. Plus, I think many neighborhoods like mine have a cut off time for Halloween and I do not see this changing because of a bit of added daylight.
One of the comments on the site you link to talks about increased spending in the summer because stores stay open later. This is not necessarily true. Stores say open later in the fall for the Xmas season and that is not going to change regardless of the sun being up or down. While summer is generally not the slowest time of year for consumer spending (something oddly enough that drivers the economy) it is also not the highest. Of course, maybe the US could take the European line of think and close down in the middle of the day for a few hours and then stay open until midnight or so. That is not necessarily energy efficient.
Ultimately people will complain about anything. Maybe, DLS is a republican conspiracy.
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