2nd November 2008, 3:23 PM
Not dark yet here, but we're further south I suspect.
Personally I think it's rather stupid to bother with time switching like this all the time. Some states don't bother, and they seem to be getting along just fine, which I think would be evidence enough that all the arguments one might make in their favor are rather false. I mean just pick whether it's "savings" or "standard" we want to lock into and just go with it forever. Again, if you think there's any problems, I'm just going to point to the states that don't bother with it and don't have those problems, so don't bother.
Personally I think it's rather stupid to bother with time switching like this all the time. Some states don't bother, and they seem to be getting along just fine, which I think would be evidence enough that all the arguments one might make in their favor are rather false. I mean just pick whether it's "savings" or "standard" we want to lock into and just go with it forever. Again, if you think there's any problems, I'm just going to point to the states that don't bother with it and don't have those problems, so don't bother.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)