Posted on 03/14/2010 10:13:28 AM PDT by Star Traveler
On Monday August 8, 2005 President Bush signed into law a broad energy bill (Energy Policy Act of 2005) that will extend Daylight Saving Time by four weeks in 2007. The provisions of the bill call for Daylight Saving Time to begin three weeks earlier on the second Sunday in March and end one week later on the first Sunday in November. Previously, Daylight Saving Time started on the first Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October.
In 2007 when the provisions take effect Daylight Saving Time will begin on March 11 and end on November 4, 2007.
While polls indicate most people favor extending Daylight Saving Time there are opponents who fought against the extension. The airline industry has said it will cost millions of dollars to change schedules and some school systems have concerns that students will be waiting for the bus in darkness in the mornings. It is expected that school systems will issue advisories to both parents and students on how to handle these situations.
There have been many proponents of extending Daylight Saving Time, including operators of golf courses, theme parks and businesses providing outdoor activities.
Previous Daylight Saving Time Provisions
Previously, in the United States, Daylight Saving Time began at 2:00 a.m. local time on the first Sunday in April. On the last Sunday in October areas on Daylight Saving Time returned to Standard Time at 2:00 a.m.
The names in each time zone change along with Daylight Saving Time. Eastern Standard Time (EST) becomes Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), and so forth. Some areas of the United States not using Daylight Saving Time include, Arizona, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa.
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I was surprised to see that my iPod switched itself.
By now the rules are built into the calendars in the computers and other of these types of electronic devices. If you've got a iPod Touch, then it goes out to the Internet and gets the time (as a function of Mac OS X, just like the Mac computers, do too...).
Why did I think it had to do with the calendar and correct time over the years?
Energy savings? My lamp is on right now. And then there’s the a/c all Summer. I hate this time change. It’s just illusion.
How much have we increased globul warming by adding this extra hour of daylight all these years?
Actually, it should have the reverse effect... reducing energy usage...
I love the extra time in the evenings. DH and I go walking after dinner more often because it's still light outside.
:-)
Arizona never did climb on that particular bandwagon.
Having driven through Arizona many times, I know why, too... LOL...
It's too darned hot for them to put Daylight Saving Time in effect there... :-)
Actually....... I was being a bit faceteous.
It’s just an artificial shift. There’s still the same amount of hours in the day.
If they didn’t change it, in the middle of the summer the sun would rise at about 4 am and set about 8 pm (+/- 8 hours from midday). Since there’s a lot more people up and about at 8 pm than 4 am, we arbitrarily move everything “ahead” 1 hour in the summer, so sunrise is 5 am and sunset 9 pm.
Double-daylight savings time has been tried too, but it near-impossible to get kids to sleep when it’s still light out at 11 pm!
I love the extra time in the evenings. DH and I go walking after dinner more often because it's still light outside.
Exactly so... that's why people like it. For this time of year, it gives them more time, after the day's work is done, to do things "in the daylight" instead of it being dark (and thus, not doing things they would otherwise do).
A little story... one time I drove up (and took a ferry) to Prince Rupert. Now, the first day I got there, I wasn't really watching the clock and just thought I would keep going and driving until it got a little bit dusky outside.
Well, by the time it did get "dusky" and I then decided it was about time to stop, I finally looked at the clock -- it was about 11:45 PM (15 minutes to midnight) ... LOL ...
Hoo-boy! It stays light up there, quite a bit later than here in the states... :-)
Oh..., and sunrise was about 3:30 AM, too...
You’re going to have more time in the evening, anyway, regardless of DST or not. The northern hemisphere is closer to the sun in the summer, so daylight lasts longer. I’m personally tired of being tortured by politicians.
Yes,it's a Touch and it's the only apple product I've ever owned or used.It has internet capability but it was only turned on this morning in an area without WiFi coverage (I wasn't home) so I don't understand how it would have connected to the internet.Oh well,maybe I don't have to understand it.I'll just add it to the long list of other stuff that I don't understand. ;-)
It’s just an artificial shift. There’s still the same amount of hours in the day.
It's an artifical shift, as you say, but it actually does make a tangible difference in people's lives, in the "real world" of how we do things in life.
Your workday still has to be done, and if you don't have as much daylight time left after you get off work, eat and then think about doing something else -- you won't be doing something else outside.
BUT, when you get off work, eat, settle down a bit and then think about doing something and it's "Daylight Saving Time" -- you find you've got a considerable amount of "daylight time" left -- so you're more likely to do things and enjoy yourself outdoors, than you would if it was already dark by the time you think about doing it.
That's the kind of "tangible difference" it makes in people's lives -- and especially those who have to "work for a living" -- doncha know... LOL...
I had a co-worker who grew up in England who'd tell stories of it still be daylight during the summer at 10PM.In fact,I was in London in June one year and it did get dark quite late...and I think I recall the sun coming up fairly early too.
Then it shifted time according to the rules on the calendar. I mean, the DST rules are built into the system. It detects the “date” — knows the time has to be shifted, and it does it. It’s all internal.
The “going out to the Internet” is for “time synching”.... but you don’t have to go out to the Internet for the “date function” as you’ve already got that set, and it’s accurate everyday. So, it knows when DST is supposed to be — and it changes it. :-)
Likewise in Oregon.... til 10 PM... and in upper British Columbia, light until almost midnight... :-)
You’re going to have more time in the evening, anyway, regardless of DST or not. The northern hemisphere is closer to the sun in the summer, so daylight lasts longer. I’m personally tired of being tortured by politicians.
You'll have more time because the day gets longer... sure... BUT ... in addition to that "more time" -- you'll also have more time (one hour more) in the summer -- precisely because of DST.
In Oregon, that means daylight until 10 PM. In British Columbia (from what I saw) that means daylight until almost midnight).
That gives a person quite a bit of time to do things "outdoors" -- after -- they get off work.... :-)
Oh... and by the way, it was the railroads that got this "time zone" business going and having the U.S. enforce "time zones" and stuff like that. It was so they could keep the trains running on schedule, as prior to that, every town has "its own time" ... doncha know... LOL ...
So that would mean that in December/January they get about 3 hours of daylight a day.Yikes!
It’s just illusion.
Oh..., believe me... if you lived up in Oregon, you would know it's not an illusion... LOL...
It makes quite a bit of difference for working people and having "daylight time" to enjoy activities outside with plenty of light around. People in Oregon enjoy their DST in the summer.... it's great.
So that would mean that in December/January they get about 3 hours of daylight a day.Yikes!
I haven't been up there during that time of the year, but yes, I suppose so. The closer you get to the Arctic Circle, then the less hours of sunlight, during the day, in the wintertime.
When you are on the Arctic Circle, during the winter, then you should just see a little light brightening up the sky (and maybe barely a sun) and then it goes away again, almost immediately.... LOL...
British Columbia is pretty far north and likewise, up in Oregon with Daylight extended so far into the evening, it's fairly far north, too. I know that Oregon has one hour longer of a day than Oklahoma does, during the summer, because of how far north it is.
Alaska's schoolkids have been doing this since the beginning. So far, I am unaware of any student deaths caused by darkness.
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