Daylight Savings Time in Bangladesh

I'm catching up with my queue of posts ......
It seems that Bangladesh is now gonna join the Western world in the fanciful game of turning the clocks back and forth using the term Daylight Savings Time (DST). Read the BDNews press release here. Perhaps one the ruling party henchmen heard the term while visiting their foreign slush fund in a western country. If only they knew the science and history behind it.

I think it's also a buzzword that will work with the public as they will think it's cool thing to do - after all most of the Western world does it. The AL morons are using it as an excuse for energy savings. If only they used some real, scientific data to substantiate their claims and reasons.

Bangladesh is a tropical country. It's daylight hours do not fluctuate as much as the Western countries located in the Northern hemisphere.

Let me show you some real info using a tool provided by ptaff.



The above graph shows that BD has a fluctuation of 3 hours in the number of daylight hours. Sunrise and sunset also fluctuate a maximum of 2 hours. These fluctuations are quite steady compared to the UK.



The UK, for example, has a difference of 8 hours in daylight times. Moreover, sunrise fluctuates from 4am to 8am - a difference of 4 hours. Sunset fluctuates from 4pm to 10pm - a difference of 6 hours. These conditions can benefit from DST. Nonetheless there are various movements wanting to abolish DST in the UK as the benefits have been questioned by some groups.

If you really want to save energy in BD then you really need to carry out 2 tasks:

• 1. Close shops and malls by 8pm. Rest of the world manages to carry out its shopping by 6/7pm when all the shops shut. The Caretaker government brought in a good rule - but the the corrupt whining public & business 'samities' kept moaning about this. Without any reason of course.
  
• 2. Design buildings to take into account of natural sunlight. Not building piss-poor, ugly, 'towers' (basically what one would call a high rise in any other part of the world) back to back. Even a semi concrete bungalow in the middle of nowhere has rooms without direct sunlight coming in! To fix this we would of course need decent planning laws and enforcement of them .. fat chance...
  

I strongly oppose DST in Bangladesh because it's going to bring about undue costs to the nation for no benefit at all. These ruling party moronic idiots have not got anything better to do .... We don't need Daylight Savings Time - instead we need Saving from the moronic ill-educated, ill motivated scum of politicians that fester in Bangladesh time and time again.