Harvey,

My grandfather was one farmer who hated DST.  He said it was stupid because 
the animals got up at the same time every day no matter what the clock said. 
Remember when Nixon put the whole country on DST all year round?  That was 
such a disaster that they abandoned it after only a couple of years. 
Personally, I'd be happy with DST from the end of April to the beginning of 
October, but maybe it would make more sense for everyone to agree on the 
same dates and stop moving things around.  I wonder how much it cost to 
readjust Windows when the rules changed, and maybe even more to the point, 
how much programming resources were unnecessarily tied up for an essentially 
silly project.  I've never heard Art Bell discuss the subject, but I've 
always wondered why anyone would think that shifting the clocks would save 
energy.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 15:22
Subject: Re: daylight saving hoax


> Well, Steve, I do agree with that, Steve.  But there is no question that
> environmentalists made a pitch that Daylight Saving time saves energy when
> any fool who can do the simplest of math knows that is not true.  If we
> wanted to have it where it would make sense we could have it from say
> Memorial Day to Labor Day so that we would have one hour more of daylight 
> at
> the end of the day.  I was always told it was to help the farmers, but 
> even
> that is probably not that effective any more.
> Harvey
>