Don't set your clocks back just yet

I really hate this whole daylight savings thing anyway. But this year they've made it even worse -- twice! It's been delayed until next week. So if your cellphone or Palm Pilot or computer or that fancy light timer that you just bought has an auto-DST feature, it might have already removed an hour from your day. Be on guard.

I don't really understand how the twiddling around of time saves energy or money. But I just heard on the radio that delaying the switch will save like ooty pazillion barrels of oil or some such. Which makes me wonder whether it wouldn't be better not to switch at all?

I mean, the quantity of daylight is not mutable, right? But human activity marches on, I guess. And it's expensive, here in the land of time=money. So maybe it makes sense to manage the timing of it in such a way that as much of it as possible takes place during the part of the day. And it makes sense that it's easier to get people to agree to set the time back than it would be to get everybody to get up an hour earlier. Or later. Or whatever.

Want to know what time it is right now? Check out this animated clock [requires flash] from designer Yugo Nakamura.