Posted on 10/29/2005 8:25:26 PM PDT by FairOpinion
WASHINGTON -- Prepare to set your clocks back one hour on Saturday night because Daylight Savings Time is coming to an end.
Daylight Savings officially ends at 2 a.m. on October 30th.
Federal law does not require states to observe Daylight Savings, but those that do must abide by the rules. From 1986 to 2006 the period has been the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October.
In August of this year, Congress passed a bill extending Daylight Savings. Starting in 2007, it will be observed from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, extending the period about a month.
Arizona and Hawaii are the only states in the U.S. that don't observe Daylight Savings and stay on "standard time" all year long.
Many U.S. territories don't set their clocks back and forth, either.
The notion of Daylight Savings is credited to Benjamin Franklin, who is said to have first had the idea in 1784.
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Yes, that's a big downer
If you did that, in the Northern parts of the country the sun wouldn't come up until 8:30-9:00am which would mean sending the kiddies to school in the dark
I REFUSE TO ALLOW THE TIME CHANGE TO AFFECT MY BIOLOGICAL CLOCK! AGAIN
Now that sounds like a plan! Sure is a shame I didn't find this last night.
Getting dressed. What an odd concept. : )
"Anyone who etches a government edict into hardware as though it were forever, deserves to get burned."
If you bought one of these peieces of hardware then do you deserve to get burned ?
My, we're touchy today! Yes, Cobra, we're all familiar with atomic clocks, and we all remember the 1950's Adventures of Superman episode where the perp tried to beat the statute of limitations (or get himself presumed dead) by hiding in a Superman-proof vault for exactly 7 years and 5 minutes, with his watch timed to the (then) national atomic clock. Superman foils him by having the atomic clock speed up a bit so the guy falls into Superman and Inspector Henderson's waiting arms 5 minutes before the deadline. Why the idiot didn't just wait another week or so is beyond me. The vault actually looked quite comfy.
I looked up the official climate for southern Idaho from the National Weather Service.
Take a look at the annual climate summary for Pocatello. We average 11.47 inches of annual precipitation. Compare that to San Diego at 10.29. Not much different in total, but Pokey doesn't ever have hot, humid days.
Registry on Windows. UNIX systems and Windows programs using stdio will update the timezone environment variable. No big deal Most vendors will send out support patches that will fix it months before it is necessary.
Given how variable the DST rules are in various geographical occasions, many electronic calendars don't even bother adjusting themselves, but assume the user will take upon himself the task of making them spring forward and fall back. That calendar, if it has a built in DST adjustment, is going to be wrong in a lot of places around the world unless it provides a way to program in the transitions. I bought a simple digital postal scale years ago and it came programmed with the current postal rates and a way to update it whenever postal rates change. Why shouldn't calendars with built in DST be expected to do the same with the transition rules.
"If you did that, in the Northern parts of the country the sun wouldn't come up until 8:30-9:00am which would mean sending the kiddies to school in the dark"
How did civilization survive all those centuries without Daylight Savings Time? :)
Since you are so smart, boggling has two g's.
It's about time you learned to spell.
Say goodnight, Jethro.
Hehe...I've actually done that before!
I know that from a conservative standpoint, I should hate DST.
However, being that I am so NOT a morning person...I do like the "later" sunset in summer (here it's 9:03PM on June 21 instead of 8:03 if still on standard time.) I realize nothing REALLY changes but if the "official" clocks are what my company goes by, and I get home at 7, that means in summer I have TWO more hours of light...not just one...after work.
Yeah, yeah...I know the sunrise would be earlier, but unless Ronald Reagan is reincarnated and will be in my backyard at 4:55 AM, there's no way I'm gonna be up then!!
Not here in AZ. I live on the Colorado river. I can see Nevada on the other side. When I go there, which I do almost everyday, it'll be an hour earlier. It's gonna be weird.
I'll have to get out my spandex and mullet wig...
I always wondered if Doc Brown's time machine adjusted for DST or not...
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