Official Real Time

[unixronin]

"Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ..." — er, to Official Real Time, upon this day when we do violence once again to our circadian clocks.

You know what I want to know?  Has anyone ever checked to see if there's more traffic accidents the Monday morning after DST begins?

Comments

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

So you're against saving energy?

Daylight Saving Time saves energy. The proof of that is, Congress extended it in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (and people say Bush & Cheney didn't care about saving energy! Ha!). It now covers almost two-thirds of the year; the next step will be to rename Standard Time "Daylight Wasting Time" and then eliminate it entirely, thus saving even more energy. After that, we can establish "Enhanced Daylight Saving Time," setting our clocks two hours ahead of current standard time. Eventually we'll save so much energy we can stop using fossil fuels completely and just run everything on time.
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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Why stop there? If we set the clocks far enough ahead, we could start producing net energy from timeshifting! In fact, I want to know why we're not doing it right now! Why, if we just set all the clocks 168 hours ahead in a single step, nobody would even notice! Why isn't Congress doing this yet?

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

Didn't we do something like that two centuries (or so) ago when we adjusted the Gregorian Calendar?

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

Yes, and next thing that happened was the Industrial Revolution. All that energy had to go someplace.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

By the gods, you're right! Let's call Steven Chu right now!

This isn't without historical precedent -- see ithildae's note below, and it's well known that during the Fascist era Italy's trains ran on time. Sadly, the technology that made this possible was deep-sixed after the war by the government and the oil companies.