The BITS-PILANI QUIZZING FORUM!

Posted by Rishabh Kaul at 1:48 PM

An August 2007 article in the Current Science journal estimated the money value of the savings accrued as a result of this change would be in the range of Rs. 1,000 crore every year, due to reduction in energy consumption upto 16% of what it is now. The authors also claim that this might help in reducing the number of road accidents. What?

The answer is shifting to Daylight Savings Time.

 

6 comments:

At February 28, 2008 at 2:21 PM UDit said...

shifting forward clocks by one hour in winters aka daylight saving time.

 
At February 28, 2008 at 6:30 PM Sumant said...

This is the daylight savings time introduction for eastern india.

 
At February 28, 2008 at 6:58 PM Tapas said...

change in IST

 
At February 29, 2008 at 8:29 PM Hari said...

Adaptive Front Lighting systems in automobiles?

 
At March 1, 2008 at 12:53 AM Prahlad Srihari said...

GMT-IST=5.5 Hrs..On increasing it to 6 hrs..

 
At March 1, 2008 at 1:38 AM Varun said...

the suggestion to stretch the Indian Stretchable time.... Officially:)

 

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