daylight savings time irrelevant

Here's an article from Ars Technica pointing to a Reuters article and an Australian study, both of which agree that the recent daylight savings time change was bunk:

As it turns out, the US Department of Energy was correct when they predicted that there would be little energy savings. This echoed concerns voiced after a similar experiment was attempted in Australia. Critics pointed out a basic fact: the gains in the morning will be offset by the losses at night. That appears to be exactly what happened.