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The whole thing was ill-conceived. Sure, you might save some energy in one specific way, but loose productivity in many other unforeseen ways.

My manufacturing company shuts down for 2 hours during the fall-back time period. This is because manufacturing processes have time stamps, and you can't have a product with a time stamp showing it went through a later stage of processing before a prior stage of processing. I'd guess we loose $1 million per hour because of this.

That's nothing compared to derailing everyone's sleep pattern twice per year. Sure, the effects of the slight modification of sleep schedule are small, but compounded over an entire population the effect is massive. How many people are drowsy and less productive because of the time change? How many people forgot to set their clocks and miss an important deadline? How many people have died in car wrecks because they are slightly more tired while commuting? How much did it cost to replace all of the equipment that was obsoleted when the new time schedule was implemented?

There is zero chance that daylight wasting time is a net benefit to society. It needs to be abandoned; the sooner the better.

As an aside, if I wasn't happily married I would want to date Rachel. Her powers of reason are sexy. Too bad the ability to reason isn't a dominant mating trait. It seems quite the opposite is true.