The rules for Daylight Saving Time (DST) changed in 2007 for the first time in more than 20 years. The new changes were enacted by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which extended the length of DST in the interest of reducing energy consumption. The new rules increased the duration of DST by about one month. DST will now be in effect for 238 days, or about 65% of the year, although Congress retained the right to revert to the prior law should the change prove unpopular or if energy savings are not significant. At present, Daylight Saving Time in the United States begins at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday of March and ends at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of November.
In 2009, DST is from 2:00 a.m. (local time) on March 8th until 2:00 a.m. (local time) on November 1st.
In 2010, DST is from 2:00 a.m. (local time) on March 14th until 2:00 a.m. (local time) on November 7th....
Only problem with the Fr. Revolution theory is, "Year Zero" was a failure - not even France uses it anymore. And there is no Biblical reason why our years should be dated from Christ's birth - why not date from Creation instead? Indeed, to Orthodox Jews, this is 5770, not AD 2009. Anno Domini, in fact, was devised in AD 525 by a member of the Curia (Rome again!), one Dionysius Exiguus, to compute the date of Easter, an unbiblical church holy day. Whether one believes the papacy is indeed Antichrist or not, Rome's manipulation of dating is clearly indicative of secular power never granted to it by Christ.
FYI, ISO 8601 is the international dating standard.
Neil wrote: Daniel 7:25 is regarded by many commentators as fulfilled by the Papacy's Gregorian Calendar, not by 19th or 20th-century time zoning. Note, this does not imply it is inherently *wrong* to standardize leap years like this; it is only a reflection of what authority the Papacy would be granted. Besides, was it any better to use the Julian Calendar, since it was introduced by Julius Caesar, a pagan?
Other commentators believe that it referred to the French Revolution, which renamed the days of the week (and changed the week to 10 days!), and the months of the year, and restarted the calendar at Year Zero (in A.D. 1793, I believe). And more recently we have secularists changing B.C. to BCE in an attempt to obfuscate that all of time is properly measured from Christ's appearance on earth.
But despite these past attempts to "change times," others believe this to be unfulfilled prophecy, by the yet-to-appear Anti-Christ.
Not every state has Daylight Savings Time - AZ, for instance, has only Mountain Standard Time; we don't have to change our clocks! The impetus for Standard Time in the USA was from the railroads, not the Feds. Before that, each locality had its own time, which complicated railroad scheduling considerably ("noon" being too subjective). In any case, I think standardizing time zones (i.e., the Standard Time Act) is a Constitutional use of Federal authority. And again, it is up to individual states whether Savings Time is adopted or not.
Daniel 7:25 is regarded by many commentators as fulfilled by the Papacy's Gregorian Calendar, not by 19th or 20th-century time zoning. Note, this does not imply it is inherently *wrong* to standardize leap years like this; it is only a reflection of what authority the Papacy would be granted. Besides, was it any better to use the Julian Calendar, since it was introduced by Julius Caesar, a pagan?
Jim Lincoln wrote: I like Daylight Savings Time, they could have it the year around, though I understand the kiddies can't find there way to school in the dark!
Uh, Jim, Daylight Savings Time is nothing more than the government's way of forcing everyone to change their schedules by an hour in the spring and fall. If you had it year round, eventually nearly everyone would figure that out, and would change their schedules to whatever makes sense to them, and there would be no point in it. "Noon" is when the sun is at its highest in the sky, regardless of what the government says.
Plus, it's something the Anti-Christ will do, so it's hardly commendable: "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." --Daniel 7:25
I like Daylight Savings Time, they could have it the year around, though I understand the kiddies can't find there way to school in the dark!
Ecclesiastes 3 1 There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven-- 2 A time to give birth, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to uproot what is planted. 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to tear down, and a time to build up. 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance. 5 A time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, and a time to shun embracing. 6 A time to search, and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep, and a time to throw away. 7 A time to tear apart, and a time to sew together; A time to be silent, and a time to speak. 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; A time for war, and a time for peace.---NASB
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Dr. Alan Cairns | 5/11/2009
