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I don't understand how extending daylight savings time saves energy. I mean, no matter when the hours are, it is still light the same number of hours, right? And when it is not light, we turn the lights on, whether it is in the evening or the morning, right? So how am I saving energy by not turning my lights on at 6 am, but having to turn them on at 6pm instead of 7 pm? Or am I just a dunce?

Ah. I guess it would be very confusing if others didn't do it, too.

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I think the whole "extend Daylight Savings Time" is meant to encourage people to get up in the morning while it is effing dark, so that they may commute at night in the dusk. Needless to say, I am not a fan, as I need that morning daylight in order to give a shit about the day.

Scooter, Scooter, Scooter. Be glad you are not a Roman, or else you would be falling on a sword, and not in a funny 11th grade play way. Instead, you'll get a book contract and an offer at an impregnable ideologue think tank! This is actually a step up for you.

Nothing on Karl Rove? Alas. I want my Schadenfreude.

Tell me why we're married again.

You liked my charm and wit?

And we've both made our sacrifices, silly curry-hating man.

It's almost bara brith time, you know.

You make bara brith, I make chocolate chip pumpkin bread, and everyone is happy.

I don't understand how extending daylight savings time saves energy. I mean, no matter when the hours are, it is still light the same number of hours, right? And when it is not light, we turn the lights on, whether it is in the evening or the morning, right? So how am I saving energy by not turning my lights on at 6 am, but having to turn them on at 6pm instead of 7 pm? Or am I just a dunce?

The goal of Daylight Saving Time is to exend the amount of dayling in the evening (thus reducing energy consumption from lighting). Howerver, as the days get shorter in the Fall, there comes a point when the lack of lightness in the morning becomes a problem (for example, kids going to school) so at the end of October, Daylight Saving Time is ended in order to have light earlier in the morning.

By pushing back the day when DST ends (and making it start earlier in the Spring) we will save some energy during that extra time that DST is in effect.

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And when it is not light, we turn the lights on, whether it is in the evening or the morning, right? So how am I saving energy by not turning my lights on at 6 am, but having to turn them on at 6pm instead of 7 pm?

The theory is that more people are awake at 7pm than at 6am. During the summer it's more like 4 or 5 am when people would have to be awake to suffer from legally imposed darkness.

I guess I don't understand it because I always have to turn the lights on in the am, too (I get up at 4:30 - 5:00)

I guess I don't understand it because I always have to turn the lights on in the am, too (I get up at 4:30 - 5:00)

That's because Congress thinks you're weird.