It’s About Time….
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This year, Halloween trick-or-treating was a little bit different…Because we haven’t switched to standard time yet—-the door-to-door costumed candy run began in the daylight…
We won’t “fall back” until next Sunday..
The extension of Daylight Savings time is part of the Energy Conservation Act signed by President Bush in 2005..
It took two years to enact it because they had to figure out how they’d deal with time-oriented electronics manufactured prior to 2005 which were not programmed to deal with the new extension..
This is just the latest attempt to tinker with time…
Whether it was the ancient Aztecs, the Greeks, or the Romans with their sundials—everyone has tried the find the correct time.
When the railroads were in full flower, they needed a standard for their schedules. So they imposed their own time zones on everyone….
….More than 100 time zones…
And each railroad had it’s OWN version of a time zone. Naturally—they conflicted with each other.. And though the trains ran “on time” everyone else was in chaos…
Finally in November of 1883— The government created the 4 standard U-S time zones that we now use….
Today, there are 24 world-wide time zones, but even that isn’t enough for some people.
There’s a 25-hour-a-day clock marketed by the Circadian Clock Company of Dallas. It was invented back in the mid-80’s by Morton Rachofsky…He believes the 25-hour clock best fits the human body rhythms.
His clock is based on the 57-minute hour. That leaves you with an extra 36 minutes at the end of the day..
And what could you do with an extra half hour a day?
I know what I’d do with it—but, right now—I just don’t have the time to tell you….
—Steve
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If you’re old enough to remember (I am, sadly) you’ll recall the nearly 2-year span of permanent DST we had in 1974 and ‘75. President Nixon installed it in the wake of the first Arab oil embargo in the fall of 1973. The reasoning was the same behind the current DST extension–more daylight equals less energy use.
I don’t know if it’s ever been proven to work, but I certainly like the few weeks of extra DST.
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I wouldn’t be opposed to year-round daylight savings time…. I rather enjoy its benefits in the evening too….I believe it was also done all during World War 2… ( ii think it was called “war time”, back then.)
—steve