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To THE AUTHORS of The Journal of Paris 1784 MESSIEURS, You often entertain us with accounts of new discoveries. Permit me to communicate to the public, through your paper, one that has lately been made by myself, and which I conceive may be of great utility. I was the other evening in a grand company, where the new lamp of Messrs. Quinquet and Lange was introduced, and much admired for its splendour; but a general inquiry was made, whether the oil it consumed was not in proportion to the light it afforded, in which case there would be no saving...

The warm weather across the Tampa Bay area is a sure reminder that the Spring is right around the corner. Along with nice weather, it's also time for longer days. Daylight Saving Time is quickly coming for 2014. Since 2007, Daylight Saving Time, or DST for short, begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. For 2014, that means it is time to 'spring ahead' this weekend. This Saturday night, Tampa Bay area residents need to change their clocks. March 9 is the second Sunday in March this year, so at 2:00 Sunday...

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Daylight Saving Time starts at 2:00 AM tomorrow morning and there are increasing calls to end the practice. Part of the reason are the health effects, which are serious. And then there's the extra energy usage that we can't afford in this day and age. From LA Times: Once again, the oft-dreaded daylight saving time change is upon us. The day that the clocks "spring" forward also inevitably takes a spring out of our step. Sure, the birds seem to chirp a little later, the sunlight shines a little less as we drag ourselves through the morning routine. But as...

German sociologist Max Weber was in many ways a fan of bureaucracy, which, he argued, is by far the most efficient way of organizing a society. But Weber realized that there were some potential drawbacks to the (in his view) inevitable growth of bureaucracy. An over-bureaucratized society might well become what he called an “iron cage,” where bureaucratic attempts at control create a depersonalized society where individuality and personal liberty are crushed - and where bureaucratic decisions foster the interests of bureaucrats but not society as a whole. It's clear we have reached that stage. One good example: No Child...

Most Americans trade an hour's sleep this weekend for more evening sunshine to enjoy after work. Officially the change to daylight saving time occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday, local time, though most folks set their clocks and watches ahead an hour before going to bed on Saturday

When we change our clocks Beginning in 2007, most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time. In the European Union, Summer Time begins and ends at 1:00 a.m. Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). It begins the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October. In the EU, all time zones change at the same moment. Spring forward, Fall back During DST, clocks are turned forward...

This weekend Daylight Saving Time begins, at 2am on Sunday, March 11th.  Ah, time...great, we lose an hour this weekend, and that means one less hour to play, drink, sleep, and just be.  Let's kill some time here then.... What do you do with your time?  Do you Spring Forward this weekend?          2007 Daylight-saving change could confuse gadgets Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time in British English, is the convention of advancing clocks so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour in late winter or early spring and...

Millions of Americans will lose an hour's sleep Saturday night, as daylight savings time returns. Officially clocks should be moved ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, but most people will change their clocks before going to bed Saturday night. The lost hour will return October 29 when clocks fall back to standard time. 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.

IRAN: DAYLIGHT SAVING ABOLISHED FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS Tehran, 20 March (AKI) - Daylight saving, which was due to come into force in Iran on Tuesday - the first day of the Iranian new year - has been abolished by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Changing the clocks with the seasons was introduced in Iran in 1990 to try to reduce energy consumption. Government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham justified the decision to eliminate daylight saving on the grounds that when the legal hour changes many faithful have difficulty in calculating with precision the hour of prayer. In the same presidential decree, Ahmadinejad said...

WASHINGTON -- An agreement was reached Thursday to extend daylight-saving time in an effort to conserve energy, but not to the extent the House approved in April. House and Senate negotiators on an energy bill agreed to begin daylight-saving time three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and extend it by one week to the first Sunday in November. The House bill would have added a month in the spring and another in the fall. According to some senators, farmers complained that a two-month extension could adversely affect livestock, and airline officials said it would have complicated scheduling...

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - Cranky schoolchildren, electronic chaos and increased sales of double espressos -- those are just some of the effects that would ripple through Americans' lives under a plan moving through Congress to extend daylight-saving time by two months a year. Under the plan that was approved by the House of Representatives and sent to the Senate, California and other states would "spring forward" in March rather than April and "fall back" in November rather than October. "It's gonna be chaos, man," said Viken Fermanian, owner of Salco Services, an electronics repair shop in Granada Hills, predicting...

Most of the country has now "sprung forward," adjusting their clocks for daylight saving time that will be in effect for the next six months. But parts of Indiana do not adjust for daylight saving time, and one member of Congress thinks its time to change that. Rep. Julia Carson (D-Ind.) plans to introduce legislation in the House this week that would place her entire state on daylight saving time. She said the lack of uniform timekeeping has caused much waste and confusion for both businesses and families alike in the Hoosier State. "It is past time, it is over...

Clock watchers prepare to spring forward 04/06/2002 By DAVID FLICK / The Dallas Morning News Jim Thrash prepares for daylight-savings time .(IRWIN THOMPSON / DMN) Every year, daylight-saving time comes around like clockwork, and it complicates Jim Thrash's life. At 2 a.m. Sunday, local time will officially spring forward one hour. On Monday morning, Mr. Thrash and two other employees at the Tic Toc Clock Shop in the White Rock area then face the task of updating the store's merchandise. That means pushing ahead the minute hands of each of the store's 100 or so timepieces, pausing at the...