Clocks back

[PlatyPius 5]

Daylight saving time is a recent invention. It was created so people could actually have a little fun after work during the summer. Since the "normal" schedule in the US is 8-4, 9-5, or 8-5, it just gives people an extra hour of sunlight for summery-type stuff.

DST was started in the US in 1966. The concept has been around longer than that, but that was the official start date. Aside from the summer leisure time bonus, DST also allegedly saves energy. They've been playing around with it recently. Bush changed the dates when we change our clocks.

And there's all the knowledge I have about DST. lol

[Marilyn. 340]

Daylight Saving Time was instituted in the United States during World War I in order to save energy for war production by taking advantage of the later hours of daylight between April and October. During World War II the federal government again required the states to observe the time change. Between the wars and after World War II, states and communities chose whether or not to observe Daylight Saving Time. In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act which standardized the length of Daylight Saving Time.

http://geography.about.com/cs/daylightsavings/a/dst.htm

Although standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads in 1883, it was not established in U.S. law until the Act of March 19, 1918, sometimes called the Standard Time Act. The act also established daylight saving time, a contentious idea then.

Daylight saving time was repealed in 1919, but standard time in time zones remained in law. Daylight time became a local matter. It was re-established nationally early in World War II, and was continuously observed from 9 February 1942 to 20 September 1945.

After the war its use varied among states and localities. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 provided standardization in the dates of beginning and end of daylight time in the U.S. but allowed for local exemptions from its observance. The act provided that daylight time begin on the last Sunday in April and end on the last Sunday in October, with the changeover to occur at 2 a.m. local time.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.html

Daylight saving time is a recent invention. It was created so people could actually have a little fun after work during the summer. Since the "normal" schedule in the US is 8-4, 9-5, or 8-5, it just gives people an extra hour of sunlight for summery-type stuff.

DST was started in the US in 1966. The concept has been around longer than that, but that was the official start date. Aside from the summer leisure time bonus, DST also allegedly saves energy. They've been playing around with it recently. Bush changed the dates when we change our clocks.

And there's all the knowledge I have about DST. lol

DST was around a lot longer then 1966 , the The Uniform Time Act happened 1966 this act standerized the use of the DST.... check out the bolded sections in my quotes....

ok just read your post more throughly , still 1966 was not really the offical start date

Edited October 28, 2006 by MarilynP

[Veiled Princess 1]

Daylight saving time is a recent invention. It was created so people could actually have a little fun after work during the summer. Since the "normal" schedule in the US is 8-4, 9-5, or 8-5, it just gives people an extra hour of sunlight for summery-type stuff.

DST was started in the US in 1966. The concept has been around longer than that, but that was the official start date. Aside from the summer leisure time bonus, DST also allegedly saves energy. They've been playing around with it recently. Bush changed the dates when we change our clocks.

And there's all the knowledge I have about DST. lol

Yes I heard next year we will start earlier and stop later because G. Dubya says so.

I guess it can save energy if you use the sun for light but most businesses don't do that and since they don't shut down in the summer time I don't think it makes a difference. I just don't get it I guess.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

My clock goes always back.

I really have one like that - drives people insane.

[Veiled Princess 1]

My clock goes always back.

I really have one like that - drives people insane.

[KiKi 0]

I hate daylight savings.....so depressing

I feel my Seasonal Affective Disorder kicking in.....sigh

[I'm Gone 60]

I think one reason they still set the clocks back is so kids aren't going to school in the dark. If school starts 7:30 or 8:00 a.m. and you didn't turn the clock back an hour kids would be going to school in the dark by the end of November.

Sunrise for December 1st is 7:00 a.m. EST, so without the time change sunrise would be 8:00 a.m.

[Veiled Princess 1]

I think one reason they still set the clocks back is so kids aren't going to school in the dark. If school starts 7:30 or 8:00 a.m. and you didn't turn the clock back an hour kids would be going to school in the dark by the end of November.

Sunrise for December 1st is 7:00 a.m. EST, so without the time change sunrise would be 8:00 a.m.

Hmmm good point... that could actually be dangerous for those kids who have to wait for the bus.

[Marc and Olga 0]

If we vote in a democrat as president, this adjusting of time will be gone forever. Dont you hate republicans? They make us keep adjusting wtaches every few months.

Am tired!

It most certainly wasn't abolished during Carter or Clinton terms.

Consider the source...

ET- I like that clock! :yes:

[Sharon 1]

Veiled Princess,

No. Farmers get up when the sun does, if not before. The clock is not relevant. The animals and crops can't read one anyway.

Yodrak

I hate it and I don't really understand why we do it... anyone know?

We need the extra time during the summer for all of our farming. Sucks pushing that plow in the dark...

Is that really the reason? I thought the daylight hours were naturally longer in the summer anyway

You got that right, oh Great Swami.

I'm up at that barn at 5:45 before I leave for my day job every morning and after dinner every night.

Time to feed the calves.

This is the latest one (not the one in the soccer uniform...lol) whose Mama died and we have to bottle feed him.

So we can eat him one day in about a year and a half.

Edited October 29, 2006 by Sharon

[dani_christine 0]

actually, those of you who say you hate daylight savings time...you actually hate standard time, right?

i'm actually glad for the time change...it's been so difficult waking up in the mornings!

wasn't the adjustment of the dates for DST a part of the energy bill that was passed in congress this year?

[Reba 2]

If you don't like the clock changes, move to Saskatchewan!

My first winter here in the South was weird because it stays light in the evening longer than it does up home in TO. At least an hour or more of daylight down here in winter time. But about an hour less of daylight in summer. Summertime up home doesn't get dark til about 10:30 or so, here its dark by about 9:30.

[ceriserose 1]

So we got all proactive and turned back out clocks before bed last night.

At 5 am I woke up to see our bedroom VCR had done so automatically after I'd already changed it, now showing 4 am.

I give up. I'm just glad we do this on the weekend so it's not really affecting anything important.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

My clock goes always back.

I really have one like that - drives people insane.

I love that clock

Get a binary clock and really f#ck with people!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/59e0/

[Veiled Princess 1]

Get a binary clock

I don't get it.