Daylight Savings Time from March to November???
Geez. Once again Congress is monkeying with stupidities. They pass an Energy Bill that is bad for conservation and great for polluting energy sources, doing virtually nothing to encourage the development of clean or energy saving technologies. At least they're not opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in this bill. No, that will wait for the budget nonsense in September.
Okay, that is grating enough. But they pass a bill that encourages more energy development and usage, then includes this section (Section 111):
Amends the Uniform Time Act of 1966 to extend standard daylight time from March to November (currently from April to October). Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the impact of this extension upon energy consumption in the United States.
Set aside for the moment that it is ridiculous for us to use Daylight Savings Time (DST) here in Alaska, where we have precious little sun in winter and nearly fulltime sun in summer. We're going to put the country through the disruption of changing the months we're in DST. They keep monkeying with this, the first time in my memory back in the 70s during the energy crisis that started it all. People didn't like it then and won't again now, and they'll change it back again in a year or two. History repeats itself.
Oh, and we'd better hope that all the major operating system vendors get their patches done in time, and that everyone installs them. Otherwise a lot of people will be on the wrong schedules for a month or so!
Bah! Congress, quit disrupting our lives just so you can claim to be doing your job. Do something real for a change!