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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House committee voted on Wednesday to expand U.S. daylight-saving time by two months to help reduce energy consumption, but rejected a plan to shave total U.S. oil demand by 1 million barrels a day.
Both proposals were offered as amendments to be tacked on to a broad energy bill that was debated by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The panel agreed in a voice vote to move the start of daylight-saving time in the United States -- which occurs when clocks are turned forward by one hour -- one month earlier to the first Sunday in March. The end of daylight time would be moved back one month to the last Sunday in November.
What do you think? The argument is that offices would save money because they'd be open when it was light. Does it make much difference in March and November?
I used to have a window...
But I don't mind not having one, it was always freezing in the morning inad boiling in the afternoon in my office, and it drove me crazy.
It won't matter in Indiana, anyway. They still refuse to recognize DST.
Indiana wants me. Lord I can't go back there.
I dunno about offices, but it would sure make a difference to me.
signed, Little Ms Rises With The Dawn
I have a window. It opens, and overlooks a parking lot. I sit with my back to it most of the time.
Extending DST is just gonna make there be more time when I have to get up in the dark. I'm against that.
I gots a big window and can see palm trees, train tracks, Ikea and a bunch of other stores, and the mountains beyond. Beautiful Downtown Burbank, S'nice.
I have a non-opening window. It overlooks housing that I can't afford. My window is freaking huge, it's basically the wall I face.
I can see through windows from where I sit, but none of them are mine. They face canyon -- the nice thing about not being too near them is that I can't see the parking lot through them, just wilderness.
Hm. In December in Massachusetts, the sun rises at about, what, 7:30 and sets at 4:15. Those are guesses. In March, pre-DST, sunrise at 6:30 or so, and sunset at 5:45. With DST earlier in March or even in February, daylight would continue after the end of the work day. But:
(1) more dark mornings. I bet there's research that dark mornings make for droopy office workers. (To say nothing of non-office workers, like construction, farm, and all manner of engineering types, who typically work 7-3 rather than 9-5.)
(2) My office, for one, has the lights on all the time. What company has a building with enough windows not to need lights in most if not all offices?? Companies that don't need to save bucks on the energy bill.
I, who wake up at dawn, would have huge trouble getting into the office at 9 if the sun didn't rise till 8. (I'm consistently late around winter solstice.) Whereas, by June it wouldn't matter, except inasmuch as I'd be a raging insomniac at 4am instead of at 5am. And who wants that??
