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2023: What Is Daylight Saving Time Saving, Really? Hint: It May Not Actually Be Time Or Money
Daylight saving time was created to help people save money by allowing them to consume less candle wax, coal, or lamp oil.
But, in 2023 America, does daylight saving time provide meaningful benefits to the common consumer?
Decades of investigation have given no conclusive solution. However, some leading time-shift experts now fear daylight-saving time will cost us in the long run.
“I am not aware of any credible study that has documented any energy savings from implementing daylight saving time,” said William Shughart, an economist at Utah State University. “As far as I can tell, all of the effects of daylight saving time are costs.”
That discovery may come as a surprise, at least to history buffs.
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Ben Franklin planted the germ of daylight saving time in 1784 with an essay suggesting that Parisians could save money on candles if they adjusted their schedules to rise with the sun.
Germany instituted daylight time as a wartime measure in 1916, intending to save energy by shifting sunset later in the day. Less artificial light meant more sun. In 1918, America briefly implemented daylight saving time. During World War II, the time shift resumed.
In 1966, America introduced its contemporary switching schedule between daylight and standard time.
During the 1974 energy crisis, the country experimented with permanent daylight time. After a winter of bleak mornings, public support faded, and the experiment stopped.
Congress and the Nixon administration hoped permanent daylight time would lower the nation’s energy consumption until the crisis subsided.
“But it was just a wild idea with no empirical support,” Shughart said. “It sounds plausible, but there’s nothing there.”
Daylight saving time was created to help people save money by allowing them to consume less candle wax, coal, or lamp oil.
The last large time-shift change was in 2007. The nation shifted the start of daylight saving from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March and delayed its end from the final Sunday in October to the first Sunday in November.
This fall, the great resetting arrives on Nov. 5.
In 2008, the Energy Department sought to measure the actual savings of daylight time. In a report to Congress, experts claimed that the nation had cut its energy use by an annual rate of 0.03%. The limited savings came in lower electricity consumption in the evenings during the extra days of daylight hours.
Other research, however, has found the reverse: The semiannual time shift exacts a cost, and daylight time earns little or no benefits.
A major research, initially published in 2008, concluded that the changeover to daylight time cost the citizens of Indiana $9 million a year, or $3.29 per family, in higher electricity expenditures. The study used a natural experiment: Much of Indiana implemented daylight time in 2006.
Matthew Kotchen, a Yale economist, co-authored the research while employed by the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He theorizes that daylight time may have given savings to energy customers decades ago when a bigger share of energy usage went toward lighting homes.
Daylight saving time was created to help people save money by allowing them to consume less candle wax, coal, or lamp oil.
Lighting expenditures appear insignificant when compared to the monthly cost of heating and air conditioning. And this is where daylight savings time can be costly.
“Shifting to daylight saving makes you wake up at the coldest, darkest part of the day,” he remarked.
Consider your daily routine in the final days of daylight time against the first days of standard time. You get out of bed one hour earlier. At 7 a.m., your residence is cooler and darker than at 8 a.m. You may heat your home by increasing the temperature on your thermostat when you get up.
An hour after the time change, you awaken and turn on the heat. The sun rises higher in the sky, warming your dwelling.
Daylight savings time is the most expensive in the autumn, according to Kotchen.
The Indiana research concentrated on a cool, northern state. Americans in the South, on the other hand, may spend more on energy at the end of the day during daylight hours, coming from work or school to a slightly warmer home.
Daylight saving time was created to help people save money by allowing them to consume less candle wax, coal, or lamp oil.
“It’s sunny and hot outside.” “You turn up the air conditioning,” Shughart replied.
Much more research has been conducted to determine whether daylight saving time saves energy and, consequently, money. A 2017 meta-analysis examined dozens of publications and discovered that daylight time costs 0.34% less electricity consumption.
Other research has discovered that the twice-yearly routine of resetting clocks has its consequence.
Researchers have observed an increase in heart attacks and industrial accidents, as well as a decrease in productivity, following the spring change, which deprives the country of an hour of sleep.
One widely referenced 2016 study conducted by the Virginia business Chmura Economics & Analytics estimated that the time shift cost the US economy $434 million.
“I think the major downside of daylight saving time is physiological,” Shughart said in an interview. “It shocks your body twice a year, and it almost doesn’t matter which way the time is shifting.”
Shughart received praise for calculating that resetting clocks costs the country $1.7 billion annually.
That sum indicates lost production when we all take a 10-minute break in the spring and another 10-minute break in the autumn to change our watches.
Shughart admits that the societal cost of clock-setting is lower today than in 2008, when he released his numbers because so many of our devices now adjust the time automatically.
SOURCE – (usatoday)
MONTREAL — Lionel Messi played the entire game despite a first-half injury scare, Benjamin Cremaschi broke a tie in the 59th minute, and Inter Miami rallied from a two-goal deficit to defeat Montreal 3-2 on Saturday night, its fifth consecutive Major League Soccer victory.
Luis Suarez scored his 11th goal of the season for Inter Miami, while Matías Rojas scored from a free kick. Montreal (3-5-3) got goals from Jules-Anthony Vilsaint and Bryce Duke.
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Messi Plays Through A Scare, Inter Miami Rallies Past Montreal 3-2 For Fifth Straight Win
Inter Miami (8-2-3) extended its unbeaten record to seven games (5-0-2) despite Lionel failing to score or assist for the first time in nine MLS appearances this season. Inter Miami is 7-0-2 in those nine games, with one loss coming against Montreal in March when Lionel did not participate.
Playing in Canada for the first time, Lionel abandoned the game late in the first half due to a problem with his left knee caused by defender George Campbell’s foul. The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner as the world’s best player collapsed immediately, clutching his knee and moaning in agony.
Inter Miami’s medical personnel entered the field to treat Messi, who stood up after around two minutes and headed to the Miami sideline. He was not subbed out, allowing him to return moments later.
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Messi Plays Through A Scare, Inter Miami Rallies Past Montreal 3-2 For Fifth Straight Win
And for some reason, the match shifted at that moment.
Inter Miami was behind 2-0 when Messi was injured; when he returned, the score was 2-1, and it was tied moments later. Rojas scored on a free kick that Messi would normally take to put Inter Miami up, and Suarez added a goal from a corner kick late in the first-half stoppage time.
Suarez became the third player in MLS history to score 11 goals in his first 800 minutes of the season, following Mamadou Diallo (11 in 2000) and Ola Kamara (11 in 2021).
The game-winning goal occurred when Rojas threw a ball into open space, and Cremaschi ran it down. Then, he made a second attempt to nudge the ball just clear of two defenders and into the net for a 3-2 advantage. Messi had two final-minute chances to extend the lead, which he missed narrowly.
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Messi Plays Through A Scare, Inter Miami Rallies Past Montreal 3-2 For Fifth Straight Win
Inter Miami was met by hundreds of fans when it arrived at its hotel Friday night, and Montreal, thanks in part to Messi’s signing with Major League Soccer last summer, sold out its 15,000 season tickets for the first time since joining in 2012. Messi has scored in 31 nations.
The match drew an announced sellout crowd of 19,619 spectators, including one dressed in a Messi tracksuit and sporting a goat mask in tribute to Messi’s status as the Greatest of All Time.
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A zoo in China has been accused of attempting to trick visitors over dog pandas by dyeing two dogs black and white to resemble panda bears. Videos circulating on Chinese social media show the two “panda dogs” at an exhibit at Taizhou Zoo, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, which opened on May 1.
Though the dog pandas are designed to resemble pandas, which are unique to China and an iconic symbol of the country, their swinging tails reveal their identity.
Zoo administrators claimed Chinese state media that they were Chow Chows, a fluffy dog breed native to northern China, painted black and white to resemble gigantic pandas, and that they had explicitly sold them as “panda dogs” without making any misleading claims.
The dogs are still at the zoo, officials told NBC News by phone on Friday, and the number of people visiting them is “at a normal level.”
Despite the fact that the zoo does not have real pandas, state media and others have attacked it for misleading visitors and mistreating the dogs.
“It is not funny at all to dye Chow Chow dogs to attract tourists,” one Weibo user said. “Their fragile skin and naturally thick coats make them susceptible to skin diseases.”
Zoo administrators defended the exhibit, claiming that the dogs were unharmed.
“Normal people dye their hair,” a spokesman told NBC News. “Dogs can also dye their hair. It is the same as hair.
In 2019, a dog cafe in the southern province of Sichuan prompted animal rights issues with its six Chow Chows that had also been dyed to resemble bears.
In 2020, in the same province, a “panda” walked by a woman in a viral video was discovered to be a dyed Chow Chow.
Other Chinese zoos have also been accused of keeping phony animals, usually dogs disguised as wolves or African cats.
After a video showing one of its Malayan sun bears standing like a person went viral in July, a zoo in the eastern province of Zhejiang denied that the bears were humanoid.
Experts refuted the story, and the zoo stated that a person wearing a fur suit would not be able to tolerate such hot summer conditions.
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CAPE Florida’s Cape Coral — This weekend, a very powerful solar storm approaching Earth may cause communications outages and cause the northern lights to appear in the United States.
For the first time in almost 20 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rare geomagnetic storm watch. The entire weekend is under scrutiny, beginning on Friday.
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Strong Solar Storm Could Disrupt Communications And Produce Northern Lights In US
According to NOAA, the sun started to create powerful solar flares on Wednesday, which led to five plasma explosions that might have disrupted Earth’s power infrastructures and satellites in orbit. A coronal mass ejection, or eruption, can produce billions of tons of solar plasma.
The flares appear to be connected to a sunspot that is 16 times the diameter of Earth, which is why NOAA is classifying this as an uncommon occurrence. In 2003, a strong geomagnetic storm destroyed power transformers in South Africa and knocked out power in Sweden.
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Strong Solar Storm Could Disrupt Communications And Produce Northern Lights In US
According to NOAA, the most recent storm may cause northern lights as far south as Alabama and Northern California in the United States.
An amazing natural occurrence is the aurora borealis, sometimes known as the northern lights. The night sky in Earth’s polar regions is home to these vibrant, dancing lights. When charged solar particles clash with atmospheric gasses, these lights are created.
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Strong Solar Storm Could Disrupt Communications And Produce Northern Lights In US
Though the lights are usually observed in green, pink, and violet hues, they can occasionally be seen in other colors as well. Countless people travel to locations like Alaska, Canada, and Scandinavia every year to see this amazing show in person since it is such a stunning sight.
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