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Daylight Savings Time
JamesRK
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why didn't they just set the clock back 1/2 hour, leave it year round, and be done with it! stooopid
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I have suspected for a few years now that we don't really get an extra hour of daylight. This year I did an illegal experiment which I am aware was in violation of the law. At 2:00 AM, I pretended to turn my watch back, but I really didn't move the hands. I stayed on Daylight Savings Time an extra day, but didn't tell anyone. I hoped I would be proved wrong, but the sun set on everyone in the neighborhood at the same moment, including me. For me it was 6:15 PM, for everyone else it was 5:15 PM, but I had lost exactly one hour of daylight this morning. Now I am faced with the ugly truth. We have been hoodwinked. We do not save daylight on Daylight Savings Time. But it's the law of the land, so I'll continue to help enforce it.
There are people, some in my own family, who would turn the clock back when going to bed instead of 2:00 AM, as required by law, if someone didn't enforce the law. Even police officers in uniform talk about changing the clock before 2:00 AM, but when questioned about it, they claim they conform to the law. Right. I have even heard radio DJs openly advocate changing the clock before going to bed.
I intend to turn myself in to the Time Police for my violation of the law. I can't live with myself.
Daylight Savings Time was first suggested by Benjamin Franklin as a joke. Unfortunately, Congress can't take a joke.
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Required by law????????????
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You may consider relocating to Indiana as I understand they are on Standard Time year round but Aviod Arizona since they never go off Daylight Saving Time.
In a technical sense, us Hoosiers never go off Daylight Saving Time either. Prior to the decision to stop changing, Indiana was part of the Central Time Zone. We leave our clocks set on Eastern Standard time all year, which is the same as Central Daylight.
Some counties immediately adjacent to Cincinati and Louisville do observe DST because so many of the residents there commute out of state to work.
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What we save in DST is electric power, on summer evenings. Also, it is thought to reduce traffic accidents.
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To get at least as far as their old man got,
But something happened on the way to that place,
They threw an American flag in our face."
-Billy Joel, "Allentown"
And this has come to pass,not to stay.
Makes me mad every year. I feel set upon by the Federal Government. It is a useless and agravating event twice a year.
Feel better now. Got that off my chest.[:p]
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As to Arizona and DST, it's more complicated than that. Arizona doesn't practice DST (they want the sun below the horizon as early as possible in the summer), but the large Navajo reservation does, except that the smaller reservation (anyone know the tribe?) inside the Navajo reservation does not. If you drive across Arizona at the right time on the right day, you can change your clock 6 times:
1. Enter from New Mexico while DST is in effect - set clock one hour back
2. Enter Navajo nation - set clock one hour ahead
3. Enter smaller reservation - set clock one hour back
4. Re-enter Navajo nation - set clock one hour ahead
5. Re-enter Arizona - set clock one hour back
6. Enter California after DST ends - set clock one hour back
On a side note, I wonder if John Kerry would drop DST for us. [;)]
the smaller reservation (anyone know the tribe?) inside the Navajo reservation
Hopi.
"Every child had a pretty good shot,
To get at least as far as their old man got,
But something happened on the way to that place,
They threw an American flag in our face."
-Billy Joel, "Allentown"
I feel set upon by the Federal Government.
Actually, DST has nothing to do with the FedGov. States can easily opt out of it, like Indiana and Arizona have.
"Every child had a pretty good shot,
To get at least as far as their old man got,
But something happened on the way to that place,
They threw an American flag in our face."
-Billy Joel, "Allentown"
" It Ain't Over till its Over"
I like it, my children don't have to walk to school in the dark.
Thats a good enough reason for daylight savings time for me.
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I could hunt in the morning and still make it to the office on time.
I believe that other than energy savings another benefit that was toted to Congress is more light when children are catching school buses in the early morning hours.
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An no, Black Roses, you won't get locked up for changing the clocks early. The time does change at 2:00 am as a matter of law, but there is nothing in the law about how you handle your clocks. It's just when we change from time zone "QUEBEC" to time zone "ROMEO".
If everybody wants to go to work an hour early and knock off an hour early in the Summer, what would be wrong with just doing that? Why change the clock?
I really don't care what kind of time we use. We could change ante meridiem to post meridiem and vice versa (which would change midnight to noon), I'd just like to pick one and settle on that. This changing twice a year don't make much sense to me.
Anyhow, I'm over it now. But, on 3 April 2005, I'll be p!$$ed again.