Daylight Savings Time
Coming Soon to a City Near You
Previously, Daylight Savings Time was implemented on the first Sunday of April and ended on the last Sunday in October for participating states (Indiana, split between two time zones, didn't' participate). The passage of the Energy Act of 2005 now puts the end of daylight saving time to the first Sunday in November. In total, Americans will have about a month of additional daylight to get their chores done. The change is expected to advantage children who celebrate Halloween by 'trick or treating', and also to cut down on traffic accidents, many of which occur in the twilight drive-time hours.
There are some oddities about Daylight Savings time. Daylight Savings was first proposed by the brilliant inventor and statesman, Benjamin Franklin. Franklin's bright idea fell on deaf ears for about a hundred years. Daylight Savings Time was never implemented until WWII when the additional hours of work aided industrial production for the war effort. The extension of Daylight Savings Time is expected to save about $300 million in energy costs. Proponents of the expanded Daylight Savings Time act also point to an additional savings of 100,000 barrels of oil per day, which could have a marginal positive effect on environmental pollution as well. The time change is likely to have some computer users, too, if the hysteria attending the Y2K milestone is any indication. Newer computers are not likely to be affected but the owners of older ones may be subject to changing times on their computers manually.
States don't have to implement Daylight Savings Time by law, but if they use it at all they'll have to make it conform to the Daylight Savings Times conventions of other states. The concept of Daylight Savings Time has less efficacy in a state like Alaska where the summer nights are endless and the wintertime days so short that an hour either way wouldn't make a difference to anyone.
Published by Anthony Ventre
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9 Comments
Post a CommentT.H... You're right about the commentary and I do appreciate and share your concerns. Fire away... It's unbefitting a fledgling writer (me) to be so sensitive... Otherwise, how will I learn to be a better one?
Best,
M.
Okay, T.H...I guess my karma, feng shue, or 'chi' or hormones (or all of them) were out of whack that day... I promise to catch up on sleep one day. Apologies.
Best,
M
noted but whatever mysterious m commenter-this is a comments section not a written presentation by way of an article
in a comments section everyone knows, except you, the latitiude in grammar,short-abbreviated thoughts, and missssspellings, etc. here, that is in a comments section, such flys-not in an article-not a professionally-written one anyway. Upon looking at your article again Moeursalen, great,catchy title-and perhpas the opening sentence isn't as inflated as I'd originally thought. You do follow it up with "Unwary people..." and it's one dash mysterious m commenter check that-oh you probably won't-you're not around but hiding off somewhere- Back to the writer-critiquing someone's work is for their betterment as it relates to their writing-that's the approach any professional worth their weight takes. yes-there is an incomplete thought with respect to computer-users-other than that, again timely subject and decent research-have a good day
Nice article, I thought the dates were a bit different, but wasn't sure. About Indiana, they used to be split between 3 times zones, central daylight (observered daylight savings time), central standard (didn't observe), and eastern (did observe). We called it fast time and slow time. LOL Recently, we now split between 2 eastern and central, and everyone observes daylight savings time. I believe Alaska, Hawaii, & Arizona are the only ones that don't observe.
T.H.Pankey: Grammatically speaking as well there isn't a complete thought when refering to computer users. Timely subject and decent research. Inflated introduction. Most people are aware of the new time change, just not aware of its implemented dates.
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Me: I'm amused, Spanky. I didn't notice anything in your commentary (above) which indicates any sort of acumen in either grammar or spelling. But listen--I respect your right to mis-spell words, ignore punctuation, and to insult free speech. Now can you take it or do you just dish it? :)
I was certainly not aware of this change, guess I am stuck indoors to much to notice any changes outside anyway. Thanks for the heads up.
Grammatically speaking as well there isn't a complete thought when refering to computer users.
Timely subject and decent research. Inflated introduction. Most people are aware of the new time change, just not aware of its implemented dates.
Ok but where's the top secret news-thoroughly disappointed as your article doesn't deliver anything top secret. I'll think twice next time you waste my time. Pun intended!
Reduced energy bills sounds good as does reduced traffic accidents.