I thought it was all about farmers. Something about business hours or something like that ------------------ humble, but hungry.
Arizona seems to do fine without it. Daylight savings is just another attempt by the man to keep us down. ------------------ I'm about to boldly go where many men have gone before.
Must be a b**** for the farmers in other parts of the world. ------------------ "I hate being in the lottery as much as the next guy, but come on people, that's where we need to be right now. We still don't have all of the pieces" -- Gascon, in conjunction with Clutch's Lottery Generator, has fired the starter's pistol on this season's lottery race. Let the tanking begin!
Daylight Saving Time Saves Energy One of the biggest reasons we change our clocks to Daylight Saving Time (DST) is that it saves energy. Energy use and the demand for electricity for lighting our homes is directly connected to when we go to bed and when we get up. Bedtime for most of us is late evening through the year. When we go to bed, we turn off the lights and TV. In the average home, 25 percent of all the electricity we use is for lighting and small appliances, such as TVs, VCRs and stereos. A good percentage of energy consumed by lighting and appliances occurs in the evening when families are home. By moving the clock ahead one hour, we can cut the amount of electricity we consume each day. Studies done in the 1970s by the U.S. Department of Transportation show that we trim the entire country's electricity usage by about one percent EACH DAY with Daylight Saving Time. Daylight Saving Time "makes" the sun "set" one hour later and therefore reduces the period between sunset and bedtime by one hour. This means that less electricity would be used for lighting and appliances late in the day. We also use less electricity because we are home fewer hours during the "longer" days of spring and summer. Most people plan outdoor activities in the extra daylight hours. When we are not at home, we don't turn on the appliances and lights. A poll done by the U.S. Department of Transportation indicated that Americans liked Daylight Saving Time because "there is more light in the evenings and people can do more in the evenings." Daylight Saving Time also saves a small amount of energy in the morning when we rise. Studies show that 70 percent of all Americans rise prior to 7 a.m. during the work week. During the summer months, sunrise is very early in the morning, so most people will wake after the sun rises. Because the sun is up, we will turn on fewer lights in our homes. Thus, we actually use less energy in the morning. So, we save energy in both the evening and the morning because we use less electricity for lighting and appliances. In the winter, the afternoon Daylight Saving Time advantage is offset by the morning's need for more lighting. In spring and fall, the advantage is less than one hour. So, Daylight Saving Time saves energy for lighting in all seasons of the year except for the four darkest months of winter (November, December, January and February) when the afternoon advantage is offset by the need for lighting because of late sunrise. Studies and modeling are currently being done by the State of California's Energy Commission to see if creating an early DST or going to a year-round DST will help with the electricity problems the state is facing. But why do we have Daylight Saving Time to begin with? Who created the law that we follow? History of Daylight Saving Time Daylight Saving Time is a change in the standard time of each time zone. Time zones were first used by the railroads in 1883 to standardize their schedules. According to the The Canadian Encyclopedia Plus by McClelland & Stewart Inc., Canada's "[Sir Sandford] Fleming also played a key role in the development of a worldwide system of keeping time. Trains had made obsolete the old system where every major cities and regions set clocks according to local astronomical conditions. Fleming advocated the adoption of a standard or mean time and hourly variations from that according to established time zones. He was instrumental in convening an International Prime Meridian Conference in Washington in 1884 at which the system of international standard time -- still in use today -- was adopted." In 1918, the U.S. Congress made the U.S. rail zones official under federal law and gave the responsibility to make any changes to the Interstate Commerce Commission, the only federal transportation regulatory agency at the time. When Congress created the Department of Transportation in 1966, it transferred the responsibility for the time laws to the new department. The American law by which we turn our clock forward in the spring and back in the fall is known as the Uniform Time Act of 1966. The law does not require that anyone observe Daylight Saving Time; all the law says is that if we are going to observe Daylight Saving Time, it must be done uniformly. Daylight Saving Time has been around for most of this century and even earlier. Benjamin Franklin, while a minister to France, first suggested the idea in a humorous essay in 1784 titled "Turkey vs. Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle." But it wasn't for more than a century later that an Englishman, William Willett, suggested it again in 1907. Willett was reportedly passing by a home where the shades were down, even though the sun was up. He wrote a pamphlet called "The Waste of Daylight" because of his observations. Willett wanted to move the clock ahead by 80 minutes in four moves of 20 minutes each during the spring and summer months. In 1908, the British House of Commons rejected advancing the clock by one hour in the spring and back again in the autumn. Willett's idea didn't die, and it culminated in the introduction of British Summer Time by an Act of Parliament in 1916. Clocks were put one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) during the summer months. England recognized that the nation could save energy and changed their clocks during the first World War. In 1918, in order to conserve resources for the war effort, the U.S. Congress placed the country on Daylight Saving Time for the remainder of WW I. It was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919. The law, however, proved so unpopular that it was later repealed. When America went to war again, Congress reinstated Daylight Saving Time on February 2, 1942. Time in the U.S. was advanced one hour to save energy. It remained advanced one hour forward year-round until September 30, 1945. In England, the energy saving aspects of Daylight Saving were recognized again during WWII. Clocks were changed two hours ahead of GMT during the summer, which became known as Double Summer Time. But it didn't stop with the summer. During the war, clocks remained one hour ahead of GMT though the winter. From 1945 to 1966, there was no U.S. law about Daylight Saving Time. So, states and localities were free to observe Daylight Saving Time or not. This, however, caused confusion -- especially for the broadcasting industry, and for trains and buses. Because of the different local customs and laws, radio and TV stations and the transportation companies had to publish new schedules every time a state or town began or ended Daylight Saving Time. By 1966, some 100 million Americans were observing Daylight Saving Time through their own local laws and customs. Congress decided to step in end the confusion and establish one pattern across the country. The Uni form Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S. Code Section 260a) created Daylight Saving Time to begin on the last Sunday of April and to end on the last Sunday of October. Any area that wanted to be exempt from Daylight Saving Time could do so by passing a local ordinance. The law was amended in 1986 to begin Daylight Saving Time on the first Sunday in April. ------------------ Everything you do, effects everything that is.
I love the schedule during DLST . . . when I wake up, it is still dark out. It takes me a few hours to fully wake up, and this makes the process much more enjoyable. And when I get home, it's light out -- I can play basketball or something like that and it'll still be light out. It kicks ass. I'd be fine on keeping the DLST schedule year-round On a side note, has anyone here lived up north? I mean NORTH north. When we lived in Norway, it was dark throughout the WHOLE Christmas season. Then during the summer, it was light all the time. Had to put trash bags over the bedroom windows. ------------------ All your hoes are belong to us
My day is longer with daylight savings time, I would never want to end it. ------------------ Ceo of the Walt Williams and Lisa Malosky fan club. atheistalliance.org
http://www.standardtime.com/ Why do we STILL do this? It's ridiculous. I hate daylight savings time.. spring forward, fall back... blah blah blah... rH
I was around back in the late 70's I think it was, when we did end daylight savings time. But for the life of me, I can't remember why it was brought back. I know I remember going to school in the dark, and that angered a lot of parents. It was brought back only a year or so after it was abolished. ------------------ Behad Sergeant at Arms of the Clutch BBS
yeah.. there's something about school bus accidents in the a.m. in that website I posted... regardless, I still think we should abolish DST rH
Ok, I actually read the link this time.....1973, huh? Damn, I'm older than I thought. ....suddenly I feel really tired. I think I'll take a nap.... ------------------ Behad Sergeant at Arms of the Clutch BBS
