Four things you might not know about Daylight Saving Time (which starts this Sunday)
Daylight Saving Time 2013 begins this Sunday March 10 at 2 a.m. Don’t forget to put your clocks forward one hour.
Daylight Saving Time traditionally begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November.
The change in the clocks means one less hour of sleep Saturday night and has traditionally resulted in many people showing up to work or an appointment an hour late.
5th item: older electronic equipment will reset the time on the old schedule, so beware on the first sunday in april. also, it reminds me of the opposition that churches had in the 1800s to the introduction of time zones (which were needed when the railroad was completed from west to east). also, some areas like arizona do not follow the DST at all.
Jim Lincoln wrote: John U.K., strange you should have heard of, British Summer Time, BST? I suppose we could have called it More Daylight Time, MDT, but blame another Commonwealth man, a bug chaser from New Zealand who apparently came up with the idea.
Jim,
British Summer Time explains a seasonal change in the clocks.
Daylight Savings Time and More Daylight Time is about as meaningful as standing by the seashore and commanding the tide to halt. Our leaders gave up such stupidity a thousand years ago. Time and tide wait for no man.
John U.K., strange you should have heard of, British Summer Time, BST?
I suppose we could have called it More Daylight Time, MDT, but blame another Commonwealth man, a bug chaser from New Zealand who apparently came up with the idea.
Not so much save, but one doesn't loose daylight. You're up earlier to make use daylight at the beginning and for that matter at end of the day.
This works
Webster's 1913 Dictionary wrote: SAVING:
Saving /Sav´ing/ (?), a. 1. Preserving; rescuing. He is the saving strength of his anointed. Ps. xxviii. 8. 2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook....
Jim Lincoln wrote: I like daylight savings time, I actually got my alarm clock changed in time to wake me up for church. Perhaps like Russia we should have all year around?
I'm still trying to figure out how it saves any daylight.
I like daylight savings time, I actually got my alarm clock changed in time to wake me up for church. Perhaps like Russia we should have all year around?
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