some clarification: daylight saving time will change nov 4 th which is later than usual. It also started earlier this year and this will continue until legislation changes. This was the first year for the extended weeks. Pre programmed machines hence changed at the traditional time.

I believe daylight saving time was started during pre electric days to allow for more daylight instead of burning fuel to see. There are some that the time change should be year round, others say we should just start everything an hour earlier than usual.

 

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My TiVo now says it's an hour earlier than it really is. I haven't bothered to let it call in for an update in over a year.

Working in IT, getting the DST patch applied to all systems last year/earlier this year was a PITA. The powers that be even had a specially staffed "situation desk" to handle any issues that popped up when we went onto DST this spring, like y2k. I'm surprised they didn't do anything like that for the one-week-later return to standard time.

Anyway, my understanding is that Congress lengthened the DST period as a way to save even more energy, what with gas prices soaring and such. See, if it worked in early 1900's factories than can benefit from more sunlight so they don't have to burn as much fuel for light, surely it would apply to modern times too when we have electric lights everywhere and everybody drives cars? Again, just my understanding, but the gist is that people who stay out past sunset stay out late regardless of the amount of sunlight, and people who's day tends to wind down when the sun sets, are more likely to be out and about during the increased daylight hours. Net result - more energy is expended during DST times than not. Of course, I don't know of any actual experiment on that, it's just a theory.

Personally, I find late-in-the-day sunlight much more useful than early-morning daylight. I wish we could be on "DST" time all year. I hate walking out of work and finding it's night already.

 

 

Yes, this year is the latest DST has ever been, yet your clocks are pre-programmed and thus don't count in the move back of this year.

If I recall correctly, Ben Franklin first proposed the idea for DST; however, DST was not instituted until WW1 or 2? Which as you can tell, since when the clock moved back people woke up earlier and went to bed earlier (since the earth's own calendar makes it darker in the evenings = less work during wartime). Yet, in the spring time we push our clocks forward (since the earth's calendar makes more daylight in the evening) allowing us to work more in the evening. Now, we enjoy DST because we can have more free-time in the evenings since there's more light.

Hawai'i and Arizona do not have DST at all.

 

or the majority of Indiana either.

 

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