Daylight Saving Wastes Energy, Study Says - WSJ.com
For decades, conventional wisdom has held that daylight-saving time, which begins March 9, reduces energy use. But a unique situation in Indiana provides evidence challenging that view: Springing forward may actually waste energy.
When the great DST debate was going on here in Indiana I always said that it wasn't about energy savings. There may be plenty of reasons to do it from a sociological point of view. The hours that I personally wasted on calendar servers and setting other servers to understand that they were leaving one time zone (not just following DST mind you) are significant. My point: you aren't saving daylight, just having it at a different (arbitrary) time. I also said that there were programs out there that would have to be re-coded to show that an Indiana Zip Code no longer put you in that "Indiana EST" time zone but now into wherever it fell on the new chart. Not quite a Y2K size issue, but still more than a non-event.
Anyway to go back now would also be a pain in my rear, so that's not my point :)
I probably want to come back to this post to make my point a little more clear so if you read it before that, oopsie. I was mostly done with this dead horse of an issue after all my machines flipped.
