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Old 01-12-2012, 04:07 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Does Arizona get to opt out?

I have one of those radio clocks, that listens to WWV and resets to their signals. When we switch to DST, it sometimes doesn't change for a day or two.
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Old 01-12-2012, 04:22 PM
 
Location: Not where you ever lived
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Arizona does not participate in the daylight time change. I don't think it will make any difference.
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Old 01-13-2012, 07:35 AM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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Arizona does not participate in the daylight time change. I don't think it will make any difference.
we need to make them comply with extreme prejudice

Indiana had a few counties that tried to retain this traitorous behavoir and a few thousand troops were sent in to beat them into submission and conform back in 2006 or so, just sayin'....
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Old 01-13-2012, 03:42 PM
 
Location: South of Maine
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we need to make them comply with extreme prejudice

Indiana had a few counties that tried to retain this traitorous behavoir and a few thousand troops were sent in to beat them into submission and conform back in 2006 or so, just sayin'....
...you're asking them to turn back the clock.
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Old 01-26-2012, 12:10 AM
 
Location: north america
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A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2012.
Does this have anything to do with the time the earth lost in its rotation and tilt due to the Japan earthquake and one other event before that that changed the earth's axis and rotation speed?
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