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It's fallback time, so we lose an hour of daylight. The reason for daylight savings time originally, was to have it stay lighter longer in the warmer months to save on electricity. The problem with that reasoning for us out west and southwest, it's super hot in the summer, so we spend more on electricity, running our air conditioning 24/7.
I wish they'd just do away with it and go back to normal, whatever that is.
I think at the end of February, we ought to skip March and go right to April 1. Then in the fall, after September 30, repeat September again. If it works to do it with an hour, why not do it with a whole month.
We could also shorten the winter months to 20 days, and make summer months with 40 days. That would help a lot too.
If you think those are laughable ideas, try to convince me that DST really gives an additional hour of daylight. These days with long commuting times, all that happens is that people in the summer have to get up in the dark and leave for work in the dark---what's the good of "daylight wasting time" to do that in the dark every morning? If employers want to give their workers an extra hour in the evening, why don't they just tell them to come in an hour earlier in the morning, instead of messing with the clocks?
The origin of DST was during WWII, when the Japanese flew bombers over here intending to bomb us in the dark, and arrived to discover that we had reset our clocks, and it was still light here because of DST and they couldn't sneak up on us, so they just said "Rats, foiled again" and turned around and flew back to Japan.
It's fallback time, so we lose an hour of daylight. The reason for daylight savings time originally, was to have it stay lighter longer in the warmer months to save on electricity. The problem with that reasoning for us out west and southwest, it's super hot in the summer, so we spend more on electricity, running our air conditioning 24/7.
I wish they'd just do away with it and go back to normal, whatever that is.
Well.......no one actually gains or loses any light. We just shift the clock forward an hour in the summer. It was thought way back when that if you shifted the time forward, the daylight would end later in the evening and you would save money on candles since you'd have to use them an hour less concidering you were functioning on the same schedule as before. It was enacted all over the world for one reason or another since then. Many times have been because of war, and most of the world was on Daylight Savings by the time WWI was finished in 1918.
You go to bed at 11pm. In one scenario it gets dark at 8pm, the other it gets dark at 9pm. You save an hour of using artificial light.
Daylight savings certainly doesn't ADD or SUBTRACT hours or daylight from our lives. How would that possibly happen!?!? We're just shifting the time so in summer months the sun goes down an hour later and rises and hour earlier.
One of the main reasons we don't just use Daylight Savings all year-round and push back sunset is because many groups don't want children going to school in the dark if Daylight was still being used in winter when we naturally have the least amount of light. I know in Chicago the latest it gets light is around 7:20am. That would be 8:20am if Daylight were used all year.
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The origin of DST was during WWII, when the Japanese flew bombers over here intending to bomb us in the dark, and arrived to discover that we had reset our clocks, and it was still light here because of DST and they couldn't sneak up on us, so they just said "Rats, foiled again" and turned around and flew back to Japan.[/QUOTE]
Haha....the thing is you know there's people out there who believe stuff like that!!
DST began in Europe in 1916, parts of Canada and Australia, and eventually in 1918 in the U.S., during World War I, to conserve fuel used to produce electricity by contriving to have an hour more of daylight at the "end" of the day during spring and summer.
Some people actually gain an hour of daylight from daylight savings. Those who work in certain fields, instead of going to their car in the dark , the extra hour helps them drive home while it's still light. It's especially helpful, since the car in question is parked in a not so great area all day long into the evening.
As for going to bed at 11p.m., yes, i did that as a kid, but now I go to bed at 3am most nights. Blame city-data and pogo.
Haha....the thing is you know there's people out there who believe stuff like that!!
As I recall (I'm not sure), during WWII, the west coast went on double DST, setting their clocks ahead two hours. So spotters could see the *** Zeroes incoming.
Tomorrow, Daylight saving time ends in Europe and nov 2 in the U.S. & Canada. What does it really mean with changing the time back 1 hour?
Does the daylight extend an hour or an hour less? Does it makes the afternoon longer or what? Plz explain
That means sunset will come earlier in the day. So if the sun sets at 5:45 on Saturday, November 1st, it will set at 4:45 on Sunday, November 2nd.
However, on a positive note, that means the sun will rise an hour earlier. Right now, I hate waking everybody up 45 minutes before dawn.
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