Remember!!!!!!

[Amelia]

Remember Day Light Savings Time begins Sunday @ 2am.

Be sure to set your Clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed this Saturday evening

[David Koot]

Oh yeah? Cool! I LOVE those longer days. Someone is donating some beautiful hardwood and Brazilian redwood, and I will be doing some boat-building! Adding fore, aft and side decks to my rowing dory. Can't wait to take that puppy out under the Golden Gate bridge.

Dave

[Nan]

You guys moving early this year? We do not go back to real time till the end of the month.

[Woody]

Yep ... it is going earlier this year.

[Dottie]

Why can't we just have "daylight saving" time all year long??

Personally, I think its logic is lacking. Just because Ben Franklin, or whoever, thought it up doesn't make it a great idea.

(Sorry, I'm not in a good mood today.)

[Pearly]

My question .... Why can't we never have DST? When it started in April that was fine but now it starts this coming weekend. And we have to go to work in the dark again. At least we can come home in the daylight.

Pearly

[Jeannieb43]

Research now shows that switching to Daylight Saving Time actually COSTS more energy than it saves.

http://governing.typepad.com/13thfloor/2008/03/does-daylight-s.html

[Amelia]

From Wikipedia

Quote:

Although not punctual in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does, often dividing daylight into 12 equal hours regardless of day length, so that each daylight hour was longer during summer.[11] For example, Roman water clocks had different scales for different months of the year: at Rome's latitude the third hour from sunrise, hora tertia, started by modern standards at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes.[12] After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season. Unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some Mount Athos monasteries

During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, author of the proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise", anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.[14] This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.[15] Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep accurate schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day

The prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett invented DST in 1905 during one of his pre-breakfast horseback rides, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through the best part of a summer day.[18] An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk. His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later.[19] He lobbied unsuccessfully for the proposal until his death in 1915; see Politics for more details.

Germany, its World War I allies, and their occupied zones were the first European nations to use Willett's invention, starting April 30, 1916. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit, Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year, and the United States adopted it in 1918. Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.

[Amelia]

Everyone check your cell phones. Mine did not automatically spring forward. Now I have to figure that one out.