Just to be polite as possible to everyone. Set your clocks back one hour Saturday night. Everyone have a Great Weekend. Allan.
Aren’t the powers that be changing this to make DST longer? Is that next spring when it will be the first of March instead of the end? Or am I, as usual, confused.
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you are correct, they are changing it starting in the spring. I wi***hey’d just get rid of it all together, the farmers don’t need the extra light anymore.
Hmm…Blair, NE…I’ve been there recently.
Personally, I like it the way it is. During the winter, when I don’t want to get outside that much, Standard Time allows me to go to work under daytime conditions. During the summer, when I want more daylight to do things outside, I get more evening daylight hours to work with. Just my [2c]
There again I don’t run my own business or farm… I have to adhere to my employer’s schedule.
The International Association of Fire Chiefs, Eveready Batteries, and probably every fire department in the land (and this firefighter, too) urge you to change the batteries in your smoke detectors when you change your clocks.
Smoke Detectors - A Sound You Can Live With
Just a reminder that Standard Time Zones were developed by the railroads in the 1880’s, amid much opposition based in part on the fact that it was a railroad invention.
Time Zones: yes. Daylight savings time: no
Daylight savings time was invented in the 1930’s by Germans to give their farmers more light to plow the feilds by, but today every Combine and tractor has floodlights that light up the entire feild as if it’s daylight, thus no need for DST anymore. let’s just get rid of it all together.
And I agree with Larry, change your smoke detector batteries too!
I agree. DST does not really give you any more time anyways…the days get longer, the days get shorter, just the “time change” doesn’t do anything except bump the clock ahead or backward. Even without DST you’ll still get fairly long days in the summer. I DO NOT like the fact that they’re extending it. during DST the time is really wacko; when it gets dark, it’s 9:00. Under standard time, even in summer that would probably be 8 or 7:30.
It didn’t give the farmers, or anyone else, more light. It just moves the light around. Where I grew up, the farmers hated daylight time. It “moved” the light to later in the day and things were hotter by then.
When draft horses were used (as in the 30’s) they couldn’t be worked in excess heat.
DST preceeded the *** and the 30’s. It was used in WWI to provide city folks with more daylight when they got home from work. This gave them time (supposidly) to tend their wholesome “Victory Gardens” and (supposidly) saved energy since they didn’t turn their lights on as soon.
IIRC it was Benjamin Franklin who originally proposed Daylight Savings Time. Took a few years for the idea to catch on.