ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

Congress moved the dates when DST started and ended because estimates predicted a net energy savings nationally if the changes were adopted. Dubya's only involvement was signing the bill into law.

when I win the lottery I'll just have two houses in adjacent time zones and move between them accordingly

I am hitting a huge mid-afternoon lull right now.

xxp Aimless-- I thought it was the centerpiece of his administration's "Energy Conservation Plan"

It could have been touted that way when introduced. It's the sort of thing presidents love to mention in their State of the Union address (speeches which I have mostly ignored since about 1994). I can't recall his ever mentioning an interest in it after that, only the stupid wrangling about how many more schoolkids per annum would be crushed by school busses compared to the status quo.