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Yay! It's Daylight Saving Time, which means at 2AM this morning, it magically went back to being 1AM. Well, it's "Yay!" for the extra hour of sleep you get, but then it's "Argh!" when you think of how dark it'll be at 5-5:30PM. The U.S. Naval Observatory explains why we fall back or spring forward, and reminds us that next year, we'll be falling back during the first Sunday of November. (The date has been changed because of Halloween and it being dark during trick-or-treating.)
And this is also a good time to remember to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. If you don't have them, get them. You should have them already; if not, look at this information from the Department of Housing Preservation & Development and the FDNY.
Photograph of the clock at GrandCentral Terminal by S.D. via Flickr
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Erm, it's now Standard Time. Daylight Savings Time was in the Summer.
The whole time switch thing is just a bunch of crap. There is no reason to and Daylight Savings Time really just shifts energy use from evening to morning. It is an antiquated thing which is allegedly done "for the farmers" and now done as an alleged energy savings device. Now it is just annoying.
trick or treating is supposed to be in the dark. its halloween.
Does anyone know where I could buy a pillar or post clock, the sort of which appear in the picture above?
Like someone said before, Daylight Saving Time ends in the fall. We're on Standard Time now.
Actually, Toby, farmers dislike Daylight Saving Time. They dislike it because cows and chickens cannot really be told to wake up and sleep an hour later or earlier. The "Daylight Saving Time was for farmers" idea is a myth.
Daylight Saving Time was invented by Benjamin Franklin to save energy resources (back in his day, it was candle wax and lamp oil). Today, it saves millions of dollars in electricity costs.
Read about it here.
Sorry for the bad link. You can read about it here:
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html