More Sailing Time!

daylight savings time starts this weekend!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/studentn ... ht.saving/

This will allow for those evening races to start up again!

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Happy Sailing,

David

As the time line runs right though Saskatchewan we don't change our clocks. I don't know if this a good thing or a bad thing lol.

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Like Saskatchewan, the time line runs down the middle of Indiana. The old compromise was to go on Eastern time, with no daylight saving time; that way both halves were "wrong" half the year, and everyone was confused. (They blamed it on the farmers, saying the cows couldn't handle the time change.) Now with extended DST, the governor finally forced the state to adopt Eastern Daylight Time, and it's much better for dealing with out-of-state businesses. Plus, you get that extra hour of Daylight Sailing Time! (And I don't think there have been any cases of Mad Cow Disease as a result.) So I highly recommend you contact your legislators and push for it.

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Does anyone know the real reason behind daylight savings? I hate it. I'm screwed up for weeks after the time change.

Is it also kinda early this year?

Its early this year and is going to last longer

I heard it because the farmers needed that extra hour of daylight to farm.

I think its because we needed an extra hour to sail!

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Coming from a farming family let's just say that story is similar to what we cleaned out of the horse barns. Farmers should be so lucky to only have to work while it's light.

I read one time that it was about kids getting to school in daylight... But I don't believe the media most of the time.

Brian C

What countries follow daylight-saving time?

• About 70 countries around the world observe daylight-saving time.
• Neither China nor Japan observes daylight-saving time.
• Many other countries refer to "daylight-saving time" as "summertime."

The history of daylight-saving time

1784 - Benjamin Franklin is thought to have come up with the idea for daylight-saving time. In a whimsical letter to a French journal, he said that Parisians could save thousands of francs a year by waking up earlier during the summer because it would prevent them from having to buy so many candles to light the evening hours.

1918 - The U.S. first adopts daylight-saving time, in the same act that created standard time zones, in an effort to save energy during World War I. It didn't prove popular, and, as a result, it was repealed the following year.

1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted "war-time," a year-round daylight-saving time to save energy during World War II. After the year-round shift ended in 1945, many states adopted their own summer time changes.

1966 - Congress established a national pattern for summer time changes with the Uniform Time Act. The act came in response from the transportation industry, which demanded consistency across time zones. The U.S. Department of Transportation now oversees time changes in the United States.

1973 - An oil embargo by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries led Congress to enact a test period of year-round daylight-saving time in 1974 and 1975. The test period was controversial; it ended after complaints that the dark winter mornings endangered children traveling to school. The U.S. returned to summer daylight-saving time in 1975.

1986 - The federal law is amended to start daylight-saving time on the first Sunday in April, beginning in 1987. The ending date of daylight-saving time was never changed, and remained the last Sunday in October through 2006.
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2005 - On August 8, President Bush signs the Energy Policy Act of 2005 into law. Part of the act will extend daylight-saving time starting in 2007, from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.

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Wow... So there was some truth to "It's for the Children".

Oh well. What ever happened to survival of the fittest?

Brian C
(donning his cynical hat)