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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:24 pm Post subject:
Daylight savings time ends tomorrow, have to set our clocks back 1 hour. I'm just curious, Anime Dad, ganmo, anybody else not in America, do you have this as well or is it only an American piece of insanity?
Daylight savings time ends tomorrow, have to set our clocks back 1 hour. I'm just curious, Anime Dad, ganmo, anybody else not in America, do you have this as well or is it only an American piece of insanity?
Yes, we have to set our clocks back one hour also. My husband said it's so outdated and should be stopped. He said it had something to do with the farming and crops (not clear on what he meant) ages ago, so it's really outdated in this day and age and no longer necessary in his opinion.
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:47 am Post subject:
gaijin mark wrote:
Daylight savings time ends tomorrow, have to set our clocks back 1 hour. I'm just curious, Anime Dad, ganmo, anybody else not in America, do you have this as well or is it only an American piece of insanity?
ganmo wrote:
Yes, we have to set our clocks back one hour also. My husband said it's so outdated and should be stopped. He said it had something to do with the farming and crops (not clear on what he meant) ages ago, so it's really outdated in this day and age and no longer necessary in his opinion
boris wrote:
@gaijin mark: Nope, you are not the only one who observes daylight savings scheme.
Daylight Saving Time is all about saving energy. Also I think it makes it safer for the school children who ride school buses. Here is the history of and info. on DST that I found at About.com:
Daylight Saving Time (Not Daylight "Savings" Time)
From Matt Rosenberg,
Your Guide to Geography.
DST Extended by Four Weeks in U.S. Starting in 2007
August 8, 2005 Update: President Bush signed into law the Energy Policy Act, which extends Daylight Saving Time (DST) by four weeks from the second Sunday of March to end on the first Sunday of November. Extended Daylight Saving Time will begin in March 2007. See below for the new "spring forward, fall back" dates for the next few years.
Every spring we move our clocks one hour ahead and "lose" an hour during the night and each fall we move our clocks back one hour and "gain" an extra hour. But Daylight Saving Time (and not Daylight Savings Time with an "s") wasn't just created to confuse our schedules.
The phrase "Spring forward, fall back" helps people remember how Daylight Saving time affects their clocks. At 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in April, we set our clocks forward one hour ahead of standard time ("spring forward"). We "fall back" at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday in October by setting our clock back one hour and thus returning to standard time. The change to Daylight Saving Time allows us to use less energy in lighting our homes by taking advantage of the longer and later daylight hours. During the six-and-a-half-month period of Daylight Saving Time, the names of time in each of the time zones in the U.S. change as well. Eastern Standard Time (EST) becomes Eastern Daylight Time, Central Standard Time (CST) becomes Central Daylight Time (CDT), Mountain Standard Time (MST) becomes Mountain Daylight Tome (MDT), Pacific Standard Time becomes Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), and so forth.
Daylight Saving Time was instituted in the United States during World War I in order to save energy for war production by taking advantage of the later hours of daylight between April and October. During World War II the federal government again required the states to observe the time change. Between the wars and after World War II, states and communities chose whether or not to observe Daylight Saving Time. In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act which standardized the length of Daylight Saving Time.
Arizona (except some Indian Reservations), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have chosen not to observe Daylight Saving Time. This choice does make sense for the areas closer to the equator because the days are more consistent in length throughout the year.
Other parts of the world observe Daylight Saving Time as well. While European nations have been taking advantage of the time change for decades, in 1996 the European Union (EU) standardized a EU-wide European Summer Time. This EU version of Daylight Saving Time runs from the last Sunday in March through the last Sunday in October.
In the southern hemisphere where summer comes in December, Daylight Saving Time is observed from October to March. Equatorial and tropical countries (lower latitudes) don't observe Daylight Saving Time since the daylight hours are similar during every season, so there's no advantage to moving clocks forward during the summer.
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Enna...you're absolutely right. I must have misunderstood what my husband was trying to tell me about daylight savings time...not that I really listen to anything he says to me anyway...
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:17 am Post subject:
ganmo wrote:
Enna...you're absolutely right. I must have misunderstood what my husband was trying to tell me about daylight savings time...not that I really listen to anything he says to me anyway...
Hi ganmo
I think I thought it started with the farmers also. That is why I went to find some info on it. Hmmm always a good thing for a wife to half listen to her husband.
Leenary wrote:
*today baka desu*
Its hard today with me >.<
Hi Leenary Don't feel too sad. It will get better.
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:44 am Post subject:
And then there's this:
Fri Oct 27, 9:28 AM ET
LONDON (AFP) - The UK puts its clocks back one hour at 2:00 am (0100 GMT) on Sunday giving most people a welcome extra hour in bed -- but two cuckoo clock enthusiasts will have precious little time on their hands.
Brothers Roman and Maz Piekarski have more than 500 clocks at their Cuckooland museum in Cheshire, northwest England.
And the task of winding back the mechanisms in the antique German clocks is going to take them all weekend.
"It is not as simple as changing a battery-powered clock because they are antiques, with all sorts of complicating factors," said Roman Piekarski, 54.
"It can put you in a real spin after a while, and I have been known to change dozens of clocks before realising I had already done them.
"It is a mammoth task but it has to be done, and it is a labour of love."
The museum, which hosts one of the world's largest collections of cuckoo clocks, also features clocks which mark the hour with quails, trumpeters and monks.
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:47 am Post subject:
Enna wrote:
Hi Leenary Don't feel too sad. It will get better.
Thanx ^^ But I'm not sad... I'm feel ''kurios'' XD there were a lot of strange things in the week... That makes me really tired and ''kurios'' ^^ _________________
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:01 am Post subject:
Leenary wrote:
Thanx ^^ But I'm not sad... I'm feel ''kurios'' XD there were a lot of strange things in the week... That makes me really tired and ''kurios'' ^^
@ Leenary: What the heck is "kurios"? What is XD? There are strange things happening in this world all the time.
@bmwracer & gaijin mark: Say bmw-kun and gaijin mark neither one of you commented on the Daylight Saving Time info I posted on the previous page, Am I being ignored? Hmmmm?
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:04 am Post subject:
Enna wrote:
@bmwracer & gaijin mark: Say bmw-kun and gaijin mark neither one of you commented on the Daylight Saving Time info I posted on the previous page, Am I being ignored? Hmmmm?
That is a lot of clocks to set back one hour, ne?
I wasn't ignoring you, it's just that right at the beginning of that post it says "President Bush" and I have a bullshit filter in my head, anytime the phrase "President Bush" comes up, my eyes roll back in my head and I pass out.
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:08 am Post subject:
Enna wrote:
@ Leenary: What the heck is "kurios"? What is XD? There are strange things happening in this world all the time.
Ähem... ''kurios'' It is like funny and strange together or something else... o.O
I can't describe it but... XD = laughing (big grien)
Right... It happens all the time... _________________
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:12 am Post subject:
Enna wrote:
@bmwracer & gaijin mark: Say bmw-kun and gaijin mark neither one of you commented on the Daylight Saving Time info I posted on the previous page, Am I being ignored? Hmmmm?
That is a lot of clocks to set back one hour, ne?
gaijin mark wrote:
I wasn't ignoring you, it's just that right at the beginning of that post it says "President Bush" and I have a bullshit filter in my head, anytime the phrase "President Bush" comes up, my eyes roll back in my head and I pass out.
I hear ya' gaijin mark! When I see him on TV I can't click the remote fast enough to another channel. OK I guess I am just being overly sensitive today. As Emily LaTilda used to say on Saturday Night Live "Nevermind."
I think instead of falling back, we should push the clock forward another hour.
Good idea!!
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Brothers Roman and Maz Piekarski have more than 500 clocks at their Cuckooland museum in Cheshire, northwest England.
And the task of winding back the mechanisms in the antique German clocks is going to take them all weekend.
It's enough to drive anyone cuckoo...
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think I thought it started with the farmers also. That is why I went to find some info on it. Hmmm always a good thing for a wife to half listen to her husband.
When you've been married for almost 8 years, you learn to tune each other out. My husband always tries to tell me things when I'm watching a Jdorama or listening to Kanjani8. But I've got him all figured out - It's his sneaky way of getting me to turn off the sound for a few minutes.
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:32 am Post subject:
gaijin mark wrote:
Ganmo, is your avatar your wedding picture?
Good eye gaijin mark! It looks like a kimono and a kilt in the same pic.
Leenary wrote:
Ähem... ''kurios'' It is like funny and strange together or something else... o.O
I can't describe it but... XD = laughing (big grien)
Right... It happens all the time...
Thanks for the explanations. Instead of XD why not use the Emoticons? Also click on "View more Emoticons."
@kill_mart: I hope your knee and hand are Ok. Feel better.
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Don't feel too sad. It will get better. 
There are strange things happening in this world all the time.
OK I guess I am just being overly sensitive today. As Emily LaTilda used to say on 
Also click on "View more Emoticons." 
