Posted on 11/02/2007 6:46:47 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
Daylight Saving Time is Here!
Fall Back on Sunday!
On Sunday, November 4 (the first Sunday in November) at 2 a.m., Daylight Saving Time ends in the United States. This year, Daylight Saving Time is four weeks longer than last year with the passage of the Energy Policy Act in 2005. The Act, which extends Daylight Saving Time by four weeks from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November, is expected to save 10,000 barrels of oil each day through reduced use of power by businesses during daylight hours. (And ya'll thought Bush didn't care about saving oil....)
Every spring we move our clocks one hour ahead and "lose" an hour during the night and each fall we move our clocks back one hour and "gain" an extra hour. But Daylight Saving Time (and not Daylight Savings Time with an "s") wasn't just created to confuse our schedules.
The phrase "Spring forward, fall back" helps people remember how Daylight Saving Time affects their clocks. At 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, we set our clocks forward one hour ahead of standard time ("spring forward"). We "fall back" at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November by setting our clock back one hour and thus returning to standard time.
The change to Daylight Saving Time allows us to use less energy in lighting our homes by taking advantage of the longer and later daylight hours. During the six-and-a-half-month period of Daylight Saving Time, the names of time in each of the time zones in the U.S. change as well. Eastern Standard Time (EST) becomes Eastern Daylight Time, Central Standard Time (CST) becomes Central Daylight Time (CDT), Mountain Standard Time (MST) becomes Mountain Daylight Tome (MDT), Pacific Standard Time becomes Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), and so forth.
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.
Arizona (except some Indian Reservations), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have chosen not to observe Daylight Saving Time. This choice does make sense for the areas closer to the equator because the days are more consistent in length throughout the year.
Other parts of the world observe Daylight Saving Time as well. While European nations have been taking advantage of the time change for decades, in 1996 the European Union (EU) standardized a EU-wide European Summer Time. This EU version of Daylight Saving Time runs from the last Sunday in March through the last Sunday in October.
In the southern hemisphere where summer comes in December, Daylight Saving Time is observed from October to March. Equatorial and tropical countries (lower latitudes) don't observe Daylight Saving Time since the daylight hours are similar during every season, so there's no advantage to moving clocks forward during the summer.
Good idea. Our church had what we call “Trunk or Treat” where parishioners decorate their vehicles, bring candy and the kids go from car to car in the church parking lot while the youth and adults were running carnival-type activities inside the church. A fun time was had by all.
I Agree! Enough with the cutesy pictures of cats or dogs. Nothing turns me off more than animal pictures — no matter how cute. These threads always degenerate and die with the stupid cats. Stop it.
Move on. Nothing here.
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LOL!! Happy Hour! I knew I liked ye, RQ! :-)
Hey, kiddo! wazzsup?
I started to say “not much” but that’d be the understatement of the year! LOL How about you?
;o)
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i’m wondering, since people seem to like the animal pics so much, what’ll they’ll think if i post some animal pics on the friday thread right after hunting season starts?
Finally have a Friday that I can visit the OFST. I guess the day before deer season opens is a good time to goof off. No one is around to notice!
No one can tell on you....
yours starts tomorrow?!? not fair, i gotta wait til the 15th :(
well, bow season is open now, but i suck at hunting with a bow.
I’ve got clients, though...
:oP
I’m not sure when our bow season is. One of my partners is a bow hunter. We joke that he is regressing. He used to hunt with rifles, but that got boring so he switched to pistols, then to black powder, then compounds and now recurves. I joke that next year he will be up in a tree with a knife between his teeth, waiting for a deer to come by...
Laters...time to hit the commute.
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