From: johnl@iecc.com   
      
   >... and many countries don't do DST anyway; even within the US, there   
   >are two (formerly, three) states that don't.  It's a silly idea anyway;   
   >maybe it made sense a hundred years ago, but now the theoretical energy   
   >savings are easily wiped out by all the energy we expend switching our   
   >clocks back and forth.   
      
   Aw, come on.  Where I am, for example, today DST moved an hour of   
   daylight from 04:00-05:00, when almost nobody is awake, to 20:15-21:15   
   when almost everybody is.  If it takes a measurable amount of energy   
   to change your clocks, you must have some pretty amazing clocks.   
      
   Arizona doesn't use DST because summer days are so hot that the   
   expense of turning on lights in the evening is dwarfed by the savings   
   in turning down the A/C.  Hawaii is so far south that the variation in   
   day length is insignificant.   
      
      
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