I apologize in advance for the noticeable lack of intelligent writing about to appear on Fool's Platinum, but due to events outside of our control, you may notice a decrease in your reading pleasure in the near future.
Daylight savings time is gone for the year, and while the extra hour of sleep is appreciated, the sun setting before the end of the work day is not. If daylight savings time was implemented to save energy in the evenings with an extra hour of sunlight, not to mention all the car accidents it prevents when the afternoon commute is during daylight hours, why not just keep daylight savings year round? Well, in 1973 they tried just that. They repealed it after one year because of all the school-bus-related accidents in the dark pre-dawn mornings. Seriously - you can read about it here.
In other news, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former Vice President Al Gore has announced plans for a new national bus-tour to spread awareness of Global Darking. Gore, a vehement opponent of ending daylight savings time, has claimed that the earlier sunsets and longer darker nights during the winter months are anthropogenic (human-caused). "There is almost unanimous consent in the scientific community that 'turning back the clocks' results in approximately one hour of less daylight during the afternoon and evening hours," he told The Today Show on Monday. "Scientists have learned through studying the ice in Antarctica that 500,000 years ago, there was no recordable evidence of Daylight Savings Time." If you would like to donate to Al Gore's latest enviro-campaign, or for more information, or if you fear that we are only 30 years or so away from 2- or 3-hour daylight savings time changes, go to http://www.climateprotect.org/.
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