Not a $pendy watch (~$60), but it's solar-powered (no batteries) and resets itself a couple of times a day with some atomic clock signal from Colorado.
Best dang watch I've ever owned.
Posted on 11/01/2008 9:36:22 PM PDT by americanophile
At 2:00 a.m. local on Sunday, most of the United States (except Hawaii and Arizona) will leave daylight saving time behind and fall back an hour to standard time.
The annoyance of resetting clocks (or forgetting to, and showing up an hour early for appointments on Sunday) may raise the question of why we bother with this rigmarole in the first place.
Daylight saving time is most often associated with the oh-so-sweet extra hour of sleep in fall (and the not-so-nice loss of an hour in spring), but some of the original reasons for resetting our clocks twice a year including saving energy and having more daylight hours for retailers, sporting events and other activities that benefit from a longer day.
As far back as the 1700s, people recognized the potential to save energy by jumping clocks ahead one hour in the summer - Benjamin Franklin even wrote about it - although the idea was not put into practice until the 20th century.
During both World Wars, the United States and Great Britain began observing daylight saving time.
After the war, U.S. states were free to choose whether to observe daylight saving time and the calendar start dates of the time change. The result was time confusion for travelers and newscasters. In 1966, Congress enacted the Uniform Time Act, which stated that if any state observed daylight saving, it had to follow a uniform protocol, beginning and ending on the same dates throughout the country.
Starting in 2007, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 lengthened
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Not a $pendy watch (~$60), but it's solar-powered (no batteries) and resets itself a couple of times a day with some atomic clock signal from Colorado.
Best dang watch I've ever owned.
if Obama wins, the day will now be 30 hours long because he is the One and felt like it
“Daylight Saving Time: Why Did We Do It?”
Here in Arizona, we don’t. :)
Remember, Reppublicans vote Nov 4
Democrats vote Nov 5.
Here’s the part I don’t understand. Why not, instead of abandoning daylight savings time, just go on it PERMANENTLY. In other words, always be in “spring forward” mode.
DST is great in the summer when you have sun until 9 or 9:30. Winter is all the more depressing when it’s dark at 4 or 4:30. Why move backwards at all?
The only “gain” would be having the sun come up a little earlier, but how much value does that have? It’s either the time when you’re getting up, getting ready to work, or on the way to work, versus shifting that daylight toward the end of the day when you get off work.
“Fall back” is pointless.
I think “falling back” adds some daylight to the fall/winter mornings, so that kids going to school won’t be doing so in darkness. Or something to that effect.
I’ll just be relishing my extra hour of sleep today....
Bobby,
I totally agree. I do not see any reason to keep the “Fall Back”. If anything, I would “Fall FORWARD” one hour to even give one more hour of sunshine in the evening to spend with your family.
In the evening, with extra light, kids can play, families can go out, mothers can shop, crime will be reduced.
With a late sunrise, you may inconvinience some kids, but in most cases kids will be just fine as many kids in many rural districts (with longer commutes to school) get on in the dark in winters and they have managed it just fine.
I'm quite OK with it, myself.
Now that the world is all connected, we should go to a nonlinear clock. Have the hours go by quickly during the work day, especially between 3 and 5 o’clock. Have time in the evening go slower so you can relax. Have it go slower as well when you first get up so you don’t have to rush to work and you can enjoy a leisurely breakfast. :^D
I’m promoting Summer Savings Time: Set your calendar back one month to get more summer.
It’s to show you that not even Time itself is immune to meddling by the Gooberment...
I agree.
Staying on Daylight Savings Time is a great idea, and a good-enough excuse to stop sending the kids off to school so early. (Lunch at 10:45? Out by 1:15?)
So we know when to change the batteries in the smoke detectors . . .
Instead of arguing pro/con — why not just move the clocks 30 minutes and then quit messing with them?
Both sides win!
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