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Posted on 11/05/2016 11:33:57 PM PDT by Cvengr
The time-honored ritual of setting clocks back an hour is just around the corner, as daylight saving time (sometimes erroneously called daylight savings time) comes to an end … for this year, at least. Do you even remember when you set your clock forward in March? In doing so, you were continuing the long tradition started by Benjamin Franklin to conserve energy.
Below is a look at when daylight saving time starts and ends during the year, its history, why we have it now and some myths and interesting facts about the time change.
When Does It Start and End?
Historically, daylight saving time has begun in the summer months and ended for winter, though the dates have changed over time as the U.S. government has passed new statutes, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO).
Starting in 2007, DST begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March, when people move their clocks forward an hour at 2 a.m. local standard time (so at 2 a.m. on that day, the clocks will then read 3 a.m. local daylight time). Daylight saving time ends on the first Sunday in November, when clocks are moved back an hour at 2 a.m. local daylight time (so they will then read 1 a.m. local standard time).
This year, DST began on March 13 and will end on Nov. 6. And next year, DST begins on March 12 and ends on Nov. 5, 2017.
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It’s also interesting to see how the posts are timestamped by the log manager in another 2.5 hrs.
Yes I will obey.
I love Big Brother.
Especially when he arbitrarily, needlessly disrupts my sleep patterns twice a year.
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For those who work outdoors, be it ranching, farming, or construction, DST helps synchronize the economy to our industries. I’m for it.
I’m not setting mine back.
I’m going to be a time traveler.
Everyone I meet will be people from the future.
:)
"Posted this using HTML" said Howwolf
"But none of us can figure out the reason" added Whywolf.
"And yet it happens coast to coast" Werewolf replied.
Perhaps that accounts for my apparent prescience.
Daylight Saving Time was not one of Mr Franklin’s better ideas.
When viewed from the perspective
Of a Chronosynclastic Infundibulum
Daylight Savings Time
Could not be less relevant
I have a dog. Which means I’m up before daybreak, I go to bed late, sleep anywhere from 4 to 6 hours typically, and sometimes catch a nap for 45 minutes or so.
About the dog... time change or not... that dog KNOWS when it’s 6pm... like today for instance DST should throw her schedule off; nope. At 6pm she’ll be giving me the signal that I should be in the kitchen preparing her kibble. And through the years all of my dogs know... I have no idea how... and I’ve sleuthed around and tried to figure it out. Dunno’
I hate it! Bar gigs in Cleveland were from 8pm until 2am. When the clocks got set back at 2am, we had to play another hour. A 6 hour gig is a tough gig, 7 hours was brutal!
Take the clock radio on your nightstand and move it back a few inches. You’ve set your clock back. In 6 months you can move it to its previous position and say you set it forward.
I note things like this: It’s December and the Patriots are playing the Dolphins in Miami.It’s a 4 pm start. Light out down there, but dark back in Boston. Same time zone but Miami is much further to the west and south. And in summer when I visit Pittsburgh and part of Ohio I note how much later the sunsets are out there.
I have read that Boston should probably be in the Atlantic time zone and that Detroit should be in Central, given their locations. Detroit and its auto industry wanted to be in same time zone as NYC. I guess there’s a couple books out there all about daylight saving time and time zones...saw an author of one of them on C-Span
Every time the time changes, I never get around to setting the clock in the upstairs bathroom.
For several months, I mentally adjust the time.
Eventually I do set it, but by then it’s only a few months ‘til the next one.
I blame Einstein.
[I also have a bunch of sun and moon apps on my iPhone ‘cuz I watch the day lengths change]
Only 45 days until they start getting longer, again.
Indiana used to be Central. But we wanted to be synced with NYC as well. If you look at a map, we’re way closer to Chicago (CST) than NYC. I can drive to Chicago in about an hour or so, going north more than west. NYC will take me between 11 to 13 hours going east.
Which time zone should we be in?
Bah! Time to Chicago, 2.5~3 hrs. Need more coffee.
Computers, laptop, phone and tablet adjusted automatically. Desk light, BP monitor and alarm clock, nope...
Great idea.
I hate this dipshit God-playing by the diaper-wipers in D.C.
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