Interesting editorial in the NY Times today (that I don't have to pay to see!!) about the obsession with time and not spending it wisely enough. Oddly enough this happened to dovetail perfectly with a chart I was throwing together using my Excel-Fu to visually demonstrate to my poor beleaguered honey that Daylight Savings Time does In Fact, save energy. He's promised to stop complaining about it if I can prove that it does what it claims to do.
Here's the chart:
Yes there are all sorts of caveats you can use to explain why you as an individual might not save more energy under this scheme, but when you're dealing with the averaged effects of hundreds of millions (if not over a billion) people the savings can add up.
And here's a link to the article.
