This may be relevant. Or not so much. But since we're about ta do it, as we do twice a year anyway...
Daylight Savings Time: What's in it for us?
Daylight Savings Time is ultimately supposed to save energy, not daylight, but studies suggest Americans use more power on their Christmas lights than they save because of Daylight Savings Time.
Thunderwagon5000 said
8:16 PM, 03/12/16
It's bullshiite taxing my addled chronic sleep disrhythmnic brain
more than it already is. Designed by you know who....
...Big Phukking Brother for one reason and one reason only. Cashflow.
From the 'big list' 4. Blame Canada: Daylight saving time started in 1908 in Thunder Bay, Canada, to squeeze in an extra hour of daylight. It spread from there. In the United States, it began in 1918, but the nation has tinkered with it endlessly, changing dates or repealing it for a while altogether.
In other words, we should as Americans, lay this time change bullshit squarely on the responsible party! Canada! Yep! There it is. Another reason why we should invade 'em!
The Krink said
2:22 AM, 03/13/16
The time change "forces everyone to travel" to a different time zone
without so much as moving a muscle. During my quarter century plus
working for the railroad...I was the one at work that got to reset the
the wall clock in the depot to the correct time at 2am twice a year
for a whole bunch of years. It was an honor.
The Krink said
2:46 AM, 03/13/16
I wonder what time it is in Walagoot NSW AU right now. Its either minus 5hrs or 7hrs
the next day there except I remember they change their clocks March 1st or is it April 1st
and there is a several week period where I'm +/- 6hrs the next day there. I gave up on phoning
Australia and trying to guess if they're awake or asleep. Email has been the way to go.
Calvin said
8:07 AM, 03/13/16
I've always ran complacent with the thought that it was the Railroad Industry that caused all this trouble with time. If every town had its own time imagine how they could have published a schedule (Timetable) and ran trains with special instructions that (used to) fit in an employees back pocket. The spectre of runnin everything extra was no problem on the old CF&W where there was only 1, o-n-e first class train. But, if you had yer dispatcher regularly calling the Block Operator at Pixley and having him copy 20 at a time, All those Wait At orders are gonna paralyze yer operation.
Better sock in a couple boxcar loads of fusees cause yer Boss'es are gonna be droppin a lot of them.
This may be relevant. Or not so much. But since we're about ta do it, as we do twice a year anyway...
Daylight Savings Time: What's in it for us?
Daylight Savings Time is ultimately supposed to save energy, not daylight, but studies suggest Americans use more power on their Christmas lights than they save because of Daylight Savings Time.
It's bullshiite taxing my addled chronic sleep disrhythmnic brain
more than it already is. Designed by you know who....
...Big Phukking Brother for one reason and one reason only. Cashflow.
Read about it...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/daylight-saving-business-energy-1.3485281
Current Local Times around the world
* = Adjusted for DST or summer time (6 places).
Sat = Saturday, March 12, 2016 (45 places).
Sun = Sunday, March 13, 2016 (99 places).
UTC (GMT/Zulu)-time: Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 03:32:09
UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, GMT is Greenwich Mean Time.
From the 'big list' 4. Blame Canada: Daylight saving time started in 1908 in Thunder Bay, Canada, to squeeze in an extra hour of daylight. It spread from there. In the United States, it began in 1918, but the nation has tinkered with it endlessly, changing dates or repealing it for a while altogether.
In other words, we should as Americans, lay this time change bullshit squarely on the responsible party! Canada! Yep! There it is. Another reason why we should invade 'em!
without so much as moving a muscle. During my quarter century plus
working for the railroad...I was the one at work that got to reset the
the wall clock in the depot to the correct time at 2am twice a year
for a whole bunch of years. It was an honor.
the next day there except I remember they change their clocks March 1st or is it April 1st
and there is a several week period where I'm +/- 6hrs the next day there. I gave up on phoning
Australia and trying to guess if they're awake or asleep. Email has been the way to go.
I've always ran complacent with the thought that it was the Railroad Industry that caused all this trouble with time. If every town had its own time imagine how they could have published a schedule (Timetable) and ran trains with special instructions that (used to) fit in an employees back pocket. The spectre of runnin everything extra was no problem on the old CF&W where there was only 1, o-n-e first class train. But, if you had yer dispatcher regularly calling the Block Operator at Pixley and having him copy 20 at a time, All those Wait At orders are gonna paralyze yer operation.
Better sock in a couple boxcar loads of fusees cause yer Boss'es are gonna be droppin a lot of them.