Daylight Savings Time

[Archangel]

Do Not set your clocks back....daylight savings time does not start until next weekend for the US....pretty screwed up if you ask me....it has always been the last weekend in October!!!!

Not sure about the Canadians....I have read some articles where some of the Canadians are following suit and changing the time as it has always been, and some that are staying with the traditonal Daylight savings time depending on what region they are in!! Who knows what to do!!! Why change things that work fine the way that they are? It just crews everyone up when you change it!!!!

[Blackpearlultra]

Here in Ontario Canada we change next weekend as well. Just means the kids will be out with a little day light for Halloween.

[Archangel]

I know it sucks.....why the hell did they change it?

[Kate]

4th of Nov on the calendar...

[GzrGldGeo]

Originally Posted by Archangel

I know it sucks.....why the hell did they change it?

It supposedly saves energy. I can't even remember the logic behind that.

[TexasFatboy]

Originally Posted by GzrGldGeo

It supposedly saves energy. I can't even remember the logic behind that.

Well, George, it all started with the railroads and the need to get a standard time across the country where previously localities had pretty much set their own time.

In 1918, Congress adopted as law the railroad time zone system. Part of that Act was the establishment of DST. At that time, WWI was going on and it was believed if folks were not using so much energy on artificial light in the evenings, that extra energy could be directed to the war effort. (Part of that push was also related to Europe - Germany instituted the first DST system during WWI followed by Britain and other countries including the U.S.)

The DST section of the Act was repealed the following year, largely at the urging of farmers.

DST was again observed during WWII - again, related to redirecting saved energy to the war effort - but was not uniformly practiced across the US after the war was over.

In 1966 Congress passed the Uniform Time Act which designated the start and stop dates for DST, but left it up to individual states legislatures whether or not they wished to actually observe DST.

In 1986 the Act was amended moving the start date of DST from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April. In 2005 it was again amended to extend DST again - making it start three weeks earlier and end one week later.

How's that for more than you ever really wanted to know!

And actually, Benjamin Franklin was one of the first to propose the concept of DST.

[GzrGldGeo]

The orginal News Conference was held on Chaulk Mountain in 1918 on the "Hill Country" side.

The peace pipe was supposedly passed for medicinal purposes at the News Conference.

It was really about a bunch of bikers who wanted to ride after work. They could ride, eat dinner, go by and buy some moonshine, and still make it home by dark. They just came up with the bullshit about saving energy so the gullible public would allow it.

And now you know the rest of the story!!

:motor:

[bullzeye]

No wonder... got home to check the online stuff, and my puters were back an hour, go figure!!!

[Archangel]

Yeah I have a clock that sets itself (somehow.. don't ask)....well apparently it didn't get the memo that this year is different with the time change!! :lol: It is now one hour different than the rest of the clocks. So I got a little confused early....even thought I knew the time wasn't supposed to change yet!! :ass:

[HDangel]

lol thank you!!! my desk calander at work said today. i was working on my friends computer this morning, it gave me notice that it changed. got home and husband said not til next week. i told him he was wrong, he said that's what the news said... and i trust hawgzone more than the guys that report the news lol
thanks for solving my mystery.