Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> writes:
I asked the person responsible for this at the Department of Trade and Industry for the government's view this morning. He said the government oppose this Bill. I said I wished people would stop trying to change the clocks. `You and me both' he said. :-)
The next time you call the government, you might mention Ryan Kellogg and Hendrik Wolff's new paper "Does Extending Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from an Australian Experiment", CSEM WP 163 (January 2007) <http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/PDF/csemwp163.pdf>. Kellogg and Wolff's paper is by far the most thorough study I have ever seen of the issue. They analyze the special DST put into place for the 2000 Olypics in Australia, and conclude that there is no evidence that daylight saving time decreased overall electrical consumption, and there is some evidence that it led to higher peak electrical loads.