Time zone chaos – Does it really save?
At present the world seems to have gone mad on varying time zones. I have read disturbing figures that question whether it actually does save power. If you take into account the time, power and effort put into programming all the clocks, flight time tables, mobile phones etc for a constantly changing time situation I would gravely doubt it! It was worse than Y2K yesterday!
So much of our lives now are based on computers and software and writing that that software to cope with whimsical changes that differ all over the place is costly in energy terms as well and time and money.
North America has extended its daylight saving – great. I guess all the computer bios’s will be manufactured to US requirements in future. This won’t suit the rest of the world.
In Australia some States have extended their daylight saving and others have not. Personally I find this confusing because I have teleconferences and sending clients up to date information EACH WEEK because it is changing somewhere weekly at present, is time consuming and also wastes power as I sit at the computer longer trying to get it right. It also gives me headache and makes my grumpy.
Yesterday was chaos at the airports as the flight departure computers were an hour out and passengers were in panic mode. Mobile phone times were crazy. Lots of people was completely unaware of what week our time will change. In fact there are several websites that spell it out very clearly but not everyone knows that.
I t would make much more sense for the entire world to change on the Sunday closest to the equinox when day and night are both the same length and this happens on the same day all around the world! If this is too confusing because people can’t work out which is the equinox (ye gods! how hard) then the last Sunday in March and September would do as a standard.
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