On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:09:25 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > no, for the exact reasons you wrote, daylight saving make no sense. > > With daylight savings the sun is not the highest at noon. And changing > > time puts a lot of stress on the body. > > But it means you spend more of your waking hours in daylight (unless > you're a postman or milkman), which has both health and environmental > benefits
not really. If I have to get up at 4am in the morning to reach my job at 7 the difference at morning is negligible. And in the evening? Since I am home early, no difference at all. And environmental benefits? Are you kidding? There are no energy savings with day light savings. More lights are used in the morning. More energy used for heaters. If daylight saving would reduce energy usage, it would have been banned decades ago. > Of course, the whole thing of the tagline came about because of the name, > you are not saving daylight at all. In the UK, it's called Summer Time, > probably because that means we can tell when it's summer by checking the > clock settings :) It is called summertime in Germany too. I am living in more rural Germany - and the cows are not very happy about it. Neither are the farmers.
