[BC] Daylight Savings Time changes?

[Alan Alsobrook]

I would say the broadcast time would just be gone.. Since the reason for changing power's and 
directions is related to the sun, no matter what we do it's still going to get up when it's ready to 
and go to bed when it wants to. For that reason I can't see the FCC changing the rules to say ok 
this skywave interference isn't going to happen because the change was requested by congress.

Now as to how much energy it will save, we did this back in 1976 so their should be hard facts and 
figures from back then. I remember traipsing off to school in the pitch black of "morning". Ok so we 
didn't need the lights in the early evening, but we sure turned them on an hour earlier in the 
morning. IIRC, back then it was sold to us as that you wouldn't need factory lights as much in the 
evening. Either way I would speculate that the energy savings seen would be far less than what the 
"experts" are figuring on.  Since the advent of the fluorescent incandescent replacements, I would 
venture that the bulk of the residential electricity use has shifted away from lighting. Personally 
my whole house has slowly converted from incandescent to fluorescent lighting. If they do it I think 
it'll turn out to be another failed experiment just as it was deemed to be back in 1976.

WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:

> I'm curious about this... does anyone know how this may end up affecting us 
> Daytimers?
> 
> http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-daylight20.html
> 
> We would lose that whole hour of time in the morning, 6:45-7:45am! Unless the 
> FCC makes a change in the Rules to accomodate this, we won't be signing-on 
> until 7:45am in November! OUCH!
> 
> We would also lose our 6-7am slot in March. Again, OUCH!