Idiot Politicians!

According to news sources such as this one, President Bush is supposed to sign an "energy" bill that makes Daylight Savings Time longer. The argument is that if there's more daylight during the evening then we won't use as much electricity. Of course, nobody's talking about the fact that we won't want to get out of bed becasue it's still dark out at 8:30.

Cany anybody stop these insane politicians? As the story claims, it's going to mean as much temp work for programmers as Y2K was, just because nobody was expecting to have to change the daylight savings settings. (And, I might add, I don't think programmers want to do it even if it gives them a chunk of money.) In my mind, changing daylight savings time so that it's a month longer is just a waste. It's fine how it is, darn it!

EDIT: Darn them, I just knew they'd do it! And the word is they have, sadly.

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