{"id":6836,"date":"2016-03-14T08:25:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T12:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2016-03-14T08:25:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T12:25:19","slug":"daylight-saving-time-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/03\/daylight-saving-time-is-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylight Saving Time is a bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/daylight-saving-time1-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"daylight-saving-time1-290x300\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/daylight-saving-time1-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/daylight-saving-time1-290x300-145x150.jpg 145w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/daylight-saving-time1-290x300-289x299.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><br \/>\nAnother semi-annual rant against changing time.  It is amazing how much inertia this has&#8230; created to save energy costs 100 years ago and people still think it is applicable and useful today.  It is not.<br \/>\nKeep the time on standard time.  Saskatchewan and a dozen other Canadian  areas do it.  There are no issues.  There are certainly:<br \/>\nno increased risk of heart attacks the day after; no increased risk of traffic accidents; no increased risk of workplace injury.<br \/>\nFor all those who want more daylight in the evening, there are those that prefer it in the morning. Who works 9-5 anymore?  <\/p>\n<p>Even in this day and age, the majority of our clocks require manual reset.  At least the computers are working for the most part.<\/p>\n<p>arrgg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another semi-annual rant against changing time. It is amazing how much inertia this has&#8230; created to save energy costs 100 years ago and people still think it is applicable and useful today. It is not. Keep the time on standard time. Saskatchewan and a dozen other Canadian areas do it. There are no issues. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6837,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}