Social Networking Fail

[beth_leonard]

I totally fail at social networking. Either that or most people like Daylight Savings a whole lot more than I do. My petition only has 21 signatures (it needs 150 to become public, and 25,000 by April 13th to actually matter). On the plus side, some of the signatures are from people/places I don't recognize. My kids are still adjusting to the time change.

If someone has better social connections than I, feel free to post this link to your other social networks: http://wh.gov/5lm

--Beth

Comments

[singerji.livejournal.com]

Our family gets somewhat cranky around the time change as well (though doesn't seem to be as cranky as yours). I like the idea of allowing individual enterprises change their operating hours as they wish depending on hours of daylight -- this already happens (how many more places stay open later during summer days, weekends, heavy shopping periods?). There's some argument for keeping schools and government office times consistent, but I think changes there can be adapted to pretty quickly.

The original argument for DST was that by evening hours being more day-lit, instead of morning hours, that since more people were out and awake in the evening this change would save energy costs. The effect is possible, but debatable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time