On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:36:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > 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.
Then you fit into the postman and milkman exception :) I'm in the opposite category, I'm a late riser so it suits me. The move away from "standard" working hours has made this less relevant, but still the majority see more of the daylight if the clocks are shifted forward. > 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. Modern "green" building make better use of natural light, so there are benefits to having as much of the working day in daylight as possible. But once again this is less relevant ion these days of flexible working. > 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. What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer for. When are they going to start considering the environment? -- Neil Bothwick Monday is the root of all evil!
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