Daylight Saving Time

[RobbO]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 8:59am

When we change our clocks

Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.

Year Begins Ends
2002 April 7 October 27
2003 April 6 October 26
2004 April 4 October 31
2005 April 3 October 30
2006 April 2 October 29
2007 March 11 November 4
2008 March 9 November 2

Date change in 2007

On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday of March and end the first Sunday of November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to revert the Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete.
daylight saving time

[RobbO]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:00am

Oil Conservation

Following the 1973 oil embargo, the U.S. Congress extended Daylight Saving Time to 8 months, rather than the normal six months. During that time, the U.S. Department of Transportation found that observing Daylight Saving Time in March and April saved the equivalent in energy of 10,000 barrels of oil each day - a total of 600,000 barrels in each of those two years.

Likewise, in 1986, Daylight Saving Time moved from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April. No change was made to the ending date of the last Sunday in October. Adding the entire month of April to Daylight Saving Time is estimated to save the U.S. about 300,000 barrels of oil each year.

[RobbO]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:00am

Indiana

Indiana has long been a hotbed of Daylight Saving Time controversy. Historically, the state’s two western corners, which fall in the Central Time Zone, observed DST, while the remainder of the state, in the Eastern Time zone, followed year-round Standard Time. An additional complication was that five southeastern counties near Cincinnati and Louisville unofficially observed DST to keep in sync with those cities. Because of the longstanding feuds over DST, Indiana politicians often treated the subject gingerly. In 1996, gubernatorial candidate Rex Early firmly declared, “Some of my friends are for putting all of Indiana on Daylight Saving Time. Some are against it. And I always try to support my friends.”

In April 2005, Indiana legislators passed a law that will implement Daylight Saving Time statewide beginning on April 2, 2006. Still in question is which part of the state falls in the Eastern time zone and which part of the state falls in the Central time zone.

[RobbO]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:01am

Halloween Trick-or-Treaters

Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. always ends a few days before Halloween (October 31). A bill to extend DST to Halloween is proposed in almost every session of Congress, with the purpose of providing trick-or-treaters more light and therefore more safety from traffic accidents. Children’s pedestrian deaths are four times higher on Halloween than on any other night of the year. Also, for decades, candy manufacturers have lobbied for a Daylight Saving Time extension to Halloween, as many of the young trick-or-treaters gathering candy are not allowed out after dark, and thus an added hour of light could mean a big holiday treat for the candy industry.

[RobbO]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:02am

Voter Turnout in Elections

Each year in the U.S., the Daylight Saving Time period closes near the end of October, about a week before Election Day. The extension of Daylight Saving Time into November has been proposed as a way to encourage greater voter participation. More people would likely go to the polls in the evening if there still was daylight when they returned home from work.

[RobbO]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:02am

Violent Crime

A study by the U.S. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration found that crime was consistently less during periods of Daylight Saving Time than during comparable standard time periods. Data showed violent crime down 10 to 13 percent. It is clear that for most crimes where darkness is a factor, such as muggings, there are many more incidents after dusk than before dawn, so light in the evening is most welcome.

[RobbO]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:03am

Amtrak

To keep to their published timetables, trains cannot leave a station before the scheduled time. So, when the clocks fall back one hour in October, all Amtrak trains in the U.S. that are running on time stop at 2:00 a.m. and wait one hour before resuming. Overnight passengers are often surprised to find their train at a dead stop and their travel time an hour longer than expected. At the spring Daylight Saving Time change, trains instantaneously become an hour behind schedule at 2:00 a.m., but they just keep going and do their best to make up the time.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:04am

Too much time on your hands, bub?

[RobbO]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:05am

i have to make up for losing an hour on sunday!!

Spelling and grammar

The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.

Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Similar examples would be dog walking time or book reading time. Since saving is a verb describing a single type of activity, the form is singular.

Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries.

Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, but it is not as politically desirable.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:12am

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. Baltasar Gracian

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
Chuck Sigars

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.
Jef Mallett

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
John F. Kennedy

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
Malcolm Forbes

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
Maria Edgeworth

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Mark Twain

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
Mason Cooley

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max Frisch

So little time and so little to do.
Oscar Levant

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
Paul Klee

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
Plutarch

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Robert Byrne

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time. Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Scottish Proverb

People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw J. Lec

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers
Updated On: 3/30/06 at 09:12 AM

[mominator]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:14am

I do like the "extra" daylight, but I do miss the sleep.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:15am

To realize the value of one year:
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.

To realize the value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of one minute:
Ask the person who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one second:
Ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when you share it with someone special.

[DG]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:17am

Does this mean Beacon will spend an hour less in the pokey Saturday night?

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:18am

A sure sign of spring! I thought it kepy getting bumped up on the calendar though....thanks for ALL your research Robbo! (oy!)

[RobbO]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:19am

Time, time, time
See what's become of me...

Time, time, time
See what's become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please

Look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky
Is a Hazy Shade of Winter

~ the bangles

[shameless]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:19am

Time, why you punish me?
Like a wave bashing into the shore
You wash away my dreams.

Time, why you walk away?
Like a friend with somewhere to go
You left me crying

Can you teach me about tomorrow
And all the pain and sorrow
Running free?
Cause tomorrow’s just another day
And I don’t believe in time

[NYadgal]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:25am

A million seconds is 13 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.


A million minutes ago was – 1 year, 329 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes ago.
A billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ.


A million hours ago was in 1885.
A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on earth.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:31am

TMI! Give me a break I have ADD!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 9:49am

Very well said, Addy (regarding your first post).

[NYadgal]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 10:23am

Thanks, Dottie... I've always loved that little collection.

[DAME]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 1:38pm

Loved that Addy. Thank you.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/30/06 at 2:21pm

It only
Take a moment
To be loved
A whole life long.

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 3:33pm

Sorry about starting the other thread. Yeah, I searched before posting, but (sheepish shrug), I don't think I specifically did the search at the off-topic board. (That would've helped. lol) Sorry 'bout that, and thanks to bdwaygirl for directing me to this thread without fussin' at me. :)

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 9:21pm

You caught me in a calm moment!

[RobbO]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 8:58pm

tonite's the night, kiddies. don't forget!