{"id":142,"date":"2007-03-01T07:17:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T11:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2009-07-24T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T15:20:46","slug":"beating-the-daylights-out-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/01\/beating-the-daylights-out-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating the daylights out of us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, here we go again.  <\/p>\n<p>Daylight savings time, that aberration of an idea whose usefulness expired halfway through the last century, has actually been *expanded* by some six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing can justify the brainwhack this causes to all Americans.  Sleep patterns average about two hours.  Changing the clock by half that is about the worst option one could imagine.  <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, from a computer security standpoint, the change extends an already potentially dangerous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Race_condition\" target=\"_blank\"> race condition<\/a> from a few hours to several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>But if we&#8217;re resigned to doing this, then let&#8217;s be smart about it.  <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s adopt a program whereby the clocks are changed every month by ten minutes in the appropriate direction.<\/p>\n<p>That would maximize the (unsubstantiated assertions of) safety and energy conservation benefits and minimize the disruptive impact on the population at large.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course we&#8217;ll have to replace the &#8220;Spring forward, Fall back&#8221; mnemonic, but it was pretty moronic anyway.  Admit it, you almost wanted to add a &#8220;Hyuck hyuck&#8221; at the end every time you said it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, here we go again. Daylight savings time, that aberration of an idea whose usefulness expired halfway through the last century, has actually been *expanded* by some six weeks. Nothing can justify the brainwhack this causes to all Americans. Sleep patterns average about two hours. Changing the clock by half that is about the worst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}