{"id":3045,"date":"2011-11-06T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2014-11-03T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:34:12","slug":"why-daylight-saving-time-should-be-abolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2011\/why-daylight-saving-time-should-be-abolished","title":{"rendered":"Why Daylight Saving Time Should Be Abolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/2011\/03\/get-rid-of-daylight-saving-time\/\">I ranted<\/a> about this last March. Since then <em>Scientific American<\/em> has made <strong>Daylight Savings Time<\/strong> number one on their list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=good-riddance\" target=\"_blank\">Human Creations the World Would Be Better Off Without<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week-end\u00a0SA editor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2011\/11\/04\/why-daylight-saving-time-should-be-eliminated\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Biello\u00a0added his voice<\/a> to the growing consensus that DST should be abolished.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DST is an ill-conceived anachronism and a bumbling attempt at social engineering.<\/strong> It&#8217;s major raison d&#8217;\u00eatre is energy conservation, but there is growing evidence it has just the opposite effect. In their<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w14429.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> 2008 study of DST in Indiana<\/a>,\u00a0Kotchen and Grant concluded&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Our main finding is that\u2014contrary to the policy\u2019s intent\u2014DST results is an overall increase in residential electricity demand.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Times have changed and it is time to stop messing with the clock twice a year!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ranted about this last March. Since then Scientific American has made Daylight Savings Time number one on their list of Human Creations the World Would Be Better Off Without. This week-end\u00a0SA editor\u00a0David Biello\u00a0added his voice to the growing consensus that DST should be abolished. DST is an ill-conceived anachronism and a bumbling attempt at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2011\/why-daylight-saving-time-should-be-abolished\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Daylight Saving Time Should Be Abolished&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4950,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions\/4950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}