Posted on 03/31/2006 11:43:42 PM PST by FairOpinion
Daylight Savings Time is so pointless. It's like cutting one foot off the end of a blanket and sewing it onto the other end.
First Sunday in April, last Sunday in October, coinciding with the the Spring and Fall Equinox.
Except no point to remember it now, since it's going to be different next year.
"Congress has passed a law changing the dates of daylight-saving time, from March 11 to November 4, but that doesn't take effect until 2007."
Technically you don't gain or lose an hour of daylight or sunlight. In the northern parts of the United States, the longest day of Summer brings about 18 hours of sunlight, and the shortest day of Winter brings about 18 hours of darkness.
"They typically don't inform us (outside the U.S.) of the dates for the time change, "
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It's a good thing that you check FR and find out. :)
Businesses who do business worldwide use UTC or "Coordinated Universal Time", or GMT "Greenwich Mean Time". UTC/GMT never changes. Many ISP's timestamp their e-mails in UTC/GMT.
"Millions of Americans will lose an hour's sleep Saturday night"
By moving the clock hands, you lose sleep?
Someone needs to patent a scale on this concept...
Yep, I know. That oughta be a headache for those who have clocks that set themselves like computer clocks, or modern day VCR's, that will still be using the old DST/Standard Time format.
They do it April 1 every year and switch back on October 1.
I'm groggy today. {YAWWWN}
The EU sprung forward on March 26th at 0100 UTC.
Thanks for the info.
I had no idea they do daylight savings in Iraq.
Many years ago I overheard a very stupid woman telling her friend at a grocery store that she loved daylight savings time because the extra hour of sunlight really made her garden grow better.
Had to be a Dim-o-rat.
Yep. But Kuwait doesn't. So we go off-kilter with them for six months. LOL
I notice in your profile this is your third year in Iraq.
You have great courage and I am also sure you must be getting a lot of satisfaction from working there.
I hate mornings as well...I am a night person, if left to my own devices....usually if anyone tried to wake me up before 9am, I do feel like I am in a coma....
Sometimes I wonder if being a night owl is genetic...my dad was a night owl(always worked graveyard, by choice), I am a nightowl(I worked graveyard shift as often as I could, by choice), my dads aunt is a night owl, and my younger son is a night owl...we all hate mornings, and love to be up all night...
Daylight Savings Time, springing ahead, makes me miserable...
Actually, I was dropped on my head when I was a baby. ;-)
Seriously, I'm fascinated with watching history take place right before my eyes. It's exhausting to work the hours here and the war can get stressful for us, but it's also very rewarding and the camaraderie with my co-workers (American AND Iraqi) is wonderful.
I was only going to do a year, but I keep getting drawn back here.
That's funny!
You called? I enjoy the extra hour...means I can get in a full round of golf after work...sit on the deck and chat with the wife, avoid doing yardwork and extra hour...
GRRRRR
"Don't forget to ser your clocks ahead an hour"
No,no,no. You move your clock BACK 11 hours
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