Thu, 07 Apr 2005

Saving Daylight

Indiana is once again immersed in the Hoosier Great Debate: should we adopt Daylight Savings Time or not.

Our new Governor is quite a bug on the subject - he contends that by moving the hands of our clocks around we'll encourage economic development and all sorts of good things will just drop from the sky for us. I think he's full of this: but what I really object to is the entire notion that we're "saving" anything. It's just specious - a completely fallacious argument.

Daylight savings time is like cutting six inches off the end of your bedsheet and sewing it to the head, and then claiming the sheet is longer! You're not saving squat: you're moving an artificial "time window" around the day. My livestock don't schedule their days according to a clock: they go by sunrise and sundown, getting more active in the summer and less in the winter. It's a natural cycle. Humans have a natural rhythm too, and when we go monkeying around with natural cycles, all sorts of unintended consequences can result.

I was quite amused to find this site: it points out many of the fallacies proposed by DST proponents as to power consumption, accident reduction, etc., etc. Listening to some of the moonbats testifying for it's adoption in legislative hearings this year you'd think that merely adopting daylight savings time would cure all of the the worlds ills. One lady even said she was all for it because it would shorten the three hour drive from Indianapolis to Evansville to two hours! Personally, I think this shows we need to spend some more money on education!

I'm quite proud of Indiana for refusing to go along with this nutty scheme to "save" light, and I can only hope that the Legislature, in it's infinite wisdom, remains set against it.

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