Friday, February 20, 2009
Alarm clocks and daylight saving
Alarm clocks and daylight saving
It seems to me that daylight saving is completely silly, in that it assumes that man cannot adjust to
different times without government help. Was it something about the poor farmer who was loosing
morning hours of sunlight? If you left it up to the individual organisations to set their own times of work,
which might vary with season, you might achieve rather more optimisation ( of sunlight, energy, traffic space,etc ).
Now there are certain bits of technology that might be missing to help this along.
I rather fancy the idea of getting up at day break each morning, and thereby maximise my use of the
sun. I need an alarm clock that goes off at daybreak. Or maybe half an hour before daybreak say.
Now your alarm clock needs a GMT clock, a GPS system, a timer and some simple software. This
should not be much hassle.
I would set my clock to go off 15 minutes before the local sunrise.
Maybe fishermen would like one to go off according to the tides? use moonbreaks?
It seems to me that reinventing the alarm clock, might be a great deal cheaper than all the messing
around people do with changing the clocks twice a year.
feel free to use this idea however you want, but send me at least a working model.
While you are at it, link it to your calendars as well.
cheers
martinW
