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Oct 16, 2018 10:13:39   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
Reader's Digest, by Marissa Laliberte

As the days get longer in the spring, we set our clocks an hour forward to take advantage of the extra sunlight. Daylight saving time lasts until fall, when the clocks go back again. At this point, the custom doesn’t seem to mean much besides an extra hour of sleep (or an hour less in the spring), but it all started as a money-saving scheme.

You might have heard that Benjamin Franklin invented daylight saving time, but that’s not the case. In 1784, he wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to The Journal of Paris sharing a story of being woken up by the sun at 6 a.m., when he didn’t expect it before noon. “I considered that, if I had not been awakened so early in the morning, I should have slept six hours longer by the light of the sun, and in exchange have lived six hours the following night by candle-light,” he wrote. Candles cost money, but sunlight is free, so he laid out a plan to have Parisians get up with the sun in the spring and summer.

Maybe Franklin was half-serious, but the main point of the letter was to tease the French for being lazy and sleeping in. The letter didn’t spark any time changes (in France or the United States), but it did get to the core of daylight saving time: saving energy by shifting the clocks to get more daylight.

It wasn’t until the early 1900s that other advocates came up with their own time-change plans. In Great Britain, advocates lobbied for a form of daylight saving time, but the government rejected it. Looking for ways to save money during World War I, Germany latched on to the idea and launched their own daylight saving. It didn’t take long for other European countries and the United States to follow their lead. Find out why some states don't practice daylight saving time anymore.

These days, daylight saving time is becoming a bit of a controversy, thanks to newer studies showing it doesn't actually save money. Most countries outside of North America and Europe don’t bother changing their clocks, and neither do parts of Arizona and Hawaii. Now that the European Union is dropping the requirement, even more countries might keep their clocks the same year-round. For now, just enjoy that extra hour of sleep.

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Oct 16, 2018 10:19:18   #
bggamers Loc: georgia
 
slatten49 wrote:
Reader's Digest, by Marissa Laliberte

As the days get longer in the spring, we set our clocks an hour forward to take advantage of the extra sunlight. Daylight saving time lasts until fall, when the clocks go back again. At this point, the custom doesn’t seem to mean much besides an extra hour of sleep (or an hour less in the spring), but it all started as a money-saving scheme.

You might have heard that Benjamin Franklin invented daylight saving time, but that’s not the case. In 1784, he wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to The Journal of Paris sharing a story of being woken up by the sun at 6 a.m., when he didn’t expect it before noon. “I considered that, if I had not been awakened so early in the morning, I should have slept six hours longer by the light of the sun, and in exchange have lived six hours the following night by candle-light,” he wrote. Candles cost money, but sunlight is free, so he laid out a plan to have Parisians get up with the sun in the spring and summer.

Maybe Franklin was half-serious, but the main point of the letter was to tease the French for being lazy and sleeping in. The letter didn’t spark any time changes (in France or the United States), but it did get to the core of daylight saving time: saving energy by shifting the clocks to get more daylight.

It wasn’t until the early 1900s that other advocates came up with their own time-change plans. In Great Britain, advocates lobbied for a form of daylight saving time, but the government rejected it. Looking for ways to save money during World War I, Germany latched on to the idea and launched their own daylight saving. It didn’t take long for other European countries and the United States to follow their lead. Find out why some states don't practice daylight saving time anymore.

These days, daylight saving time is becoming a bit of a controversy, thanks to newer studies showing it doesn't actually save money. Most countries outside of North America and Europe don’t bother changing their clocks, and neither do parts of Arizona and Hawaii. Now that the European Union is dropping the requirement, even more countries might keep their clocks the same year-round. For now, just enjoy that extra hour of sleep.
Reader's Digest, by Marissa Laliberte br br As t... (show quote)


Where I live its more about the kids not standing at the side of the road IN THE DARK waiting for school bus. By going forward and going back they are not in the dark any more during the winter.

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Oct 16, 2018 10:36:36   #
EL Loc: Massachusetts
 
bggamers wrote:
Where I live its more about the kids not standing at the side of the road IN THE DARK waiting for school bus. By going forward and going back they are not in the dark any more during the winter.


Every year as the days get shorter, I remember how much I appreciate the sun.

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Oct 16, 2018 10:54:39   #
JimMe
 
slatten49 wrote:
Reader's Digest, by Marissa Laliberte

As the days get longer in the spring, we set our clocks an hour forward to take advantage of the extra sunlight. Daylight saving time lasts until fall, when the clocks go back again. At this point, the custom doesn’t seem to mean much besides an extra hour of sleep (or an hour less in the spring), but it all started as a money-saving scheme.

You might have heard that Benjamin Franklin invented daylight saving time, but that’s not the case. In 1784, he wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to The Journal of Paris sharing a story of being woken up by the sun at 6 a.m., when he didn’t expect it before noon. “I considered that, if I had not been awakened so early in the morning, I should have slept six hours longer by the light of the sun, and in exchange have lived six hours the following night by candle-light,” he wrote. Candles cost money, but sunlight is free, so he laid out a plan to have Parisians get up with the sun in the spring and summer.

Maybe Franklin was half-serious, but the main point of the letter was to tease the French for being lazy and sleeping in. The letter didn’t spark any time changes (in France or the United States), but it did get to the core of daylight saving time: saving energy by shifting the clocks to get more daylight.

It wasn’t until the early 1900s that other advocates came up with their own time-change plans. In Great Britain, advocates lobbied for a form of daylight saving time, but the government rejected it. Looking for ways to save money during World War I, Germany latched on to the idea and launched their own daylight saving. It didn’t take long for other European countries and the United States to follow their lead. Find out why some states don't practice daylight saving time anymore.

These days, daylight saving time is becoming a bit of a controversy, thanks to newer studies showing it doesn't actually save money. Most countries outside of North America and Europe don’t bother changing their clocks, and neither do parts of Arizona and Hawaii. Now that the European Union is dropping the requirement, even more countries might keep their clocks the same year-round. For now, just enjoy that extra hour of sleep.
Reader's Digest, by Marissa Laliberte br br As t... (show quote)

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Oct 16, 2018 10:58:27   #
JimMe
 
I'm in Arizona... We have to change Our Time Zones to keep in sync with the rest of the USA... Ending Daylight Savings means ending Time Zone Savings for us... And I'm all for it... Times a Wasting...

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Oct 16, 2018 12:31:55   #
bggamers Loc: georgia
 
EL wrote:
Every year as the days get shorter, I remember how much I appreciate the sun.


I'm a winter and fall person don't like the heat so I'm loving the cool weather

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Oct 16, 2018 13:17:21   #
archie bunker Loc: Texas
 
bggamers wrote:
I'm a winter and fall person don't like the heat so I'm loving the cool weather


I'm a "just right" person. 74 day, 60 at night. Never run heat, or air. And if it ain't running, electric bill minimal, and no buying filters.
Where can I go to find that?

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Oct 16, 2018 13:32:55   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
archie bunker wrote:
I'm a "just right" person. 74 day, 60 at night. Never run heat, or air. And if it ain't running, electric bill minimal, and no buying filters.
Where can I go to find that?

Arch, you won't like hearing this, but the greater San Diego & greater San Francisco areas. There are probably others I've not been.

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Oct 16, 2018 14:20:47   #
archie bunker Loc: Texas
 
slatten49 wrote:
Arch, you won't like hearing this, but the greater San Diego & greater San Francisco areas. There are probably others I've not been.


Well, I have plenty of winter gear, and I can pay the bill. It's remembering to swap filters that I struggle with.....I can overcome that too.

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Oct 16, 2018 14:46:00   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
archie bunker wrote:
Well, I have plenty of winter gear, and I can pay the bill. It's remembering to swap filters that I struggle with.....I can overcome that too.

Good that you have winter gear, as there are plenty of 'snowflakes' in Amarillo...but, of the original kind from winter's snowfall.

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Oct 16, 2018 15:15:06   #
archie bunker Loc: Texas
 
slatten49 wrote:
Good that you have winter gear, as there are plenty of 'snowflakes' in Amarillo...but, of the original kind from winter's snowfall.


I've got a feeling that we'll have many this year.

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Oct 16, 2018 15:27:25   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
archie bunker wrote:
I've got a feeling that we'll have many this year.

Talked to my brother in Amarillo just a day or two ago, and he said (at that time) snow was on its way, soon. Has it hit yet?

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Oct 16, 2018 15:53:32   #
archie bunker Loc: Texas
 
slatten49 wrote:
Talked to my brother in Amarillo just a day or two ago, and he said (at that time) snow was on its way, soon. Has it hit yet?


Nope. Thankfully, our weather guessers called it wrong! A little up north around Clayton, but nothing but a little spit here.

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Oct 17, 2018 07:57:52   #
crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
 
slatten49 wrote:
Reader's Digest, by Marissa Laliberte

As the days get longer in the spring, we set our clocks an hour forward to take advantage of the extra sunlight. Daylight saving time lasts until fall, when the clocks go back again. At this point, the custom doesn’t seem to mean much besides an extra hour of sleep (or an hour less in the spring), but it all started as a money-saving scheme.

You might have heard that Benjamin Franklin invented daylight saving time, but that’s not the case. In 1784, he wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to The Journal of Paris sharing a story of being woken up by the sun at 6 a.m., when he didn’t expect it before noon. “I considered that, if I had not been awakened so early in the morning, I should have slept six hours longer by the light of the sun, and in exchange have lived six hours the following night by candle-light,” he wrote. Candles cost money, but sunlight is free, so he laid out a plan to have Parisians get up with the sun in the spring and summer.

Maybe Franklin was half-serious, but the main point of the letter was to tease the French for being lazy and sleeping in. The letter didn’t spark any time changes (in France or the United States), but it did get to the core of daylight saving time: saving energy by shifting the clocks to get more daylight.

It wasn’t until the early 1900s that other advocates came up with their own time-change plans. In Great Britain, advocates lobbied for a form of daylight saving time, but the government rejected it. Looking for ways to save money during World War I, Germany latched on to the idea and launched their own daylight saving. It didn’t take long for other European countries and the United States to follow their lead. Find out why some states don't practice daylight saving time anymore.

These days, daylight saving time is becoming a bit of a controversy, thanks to newer studies showing it doesn't actually save money. Most countries outside of North America and Europe don’t bother changing their clocks, and neither do parts of Arizona and Hawaii. Now that the European Union is dropping the requirement, even more countries might keep their clocks the same year-round. For now, just enjoy that extra hour of sleep.
Reader's Digest, by Marissa Laliberte br br As t... (show quote)




Our bodies are programmed to function along the sunlight and night. We work best when the sun is directly overhead at 12 noon. The more we diverge from that the more toll takes over our lifetimes. Chronic diseases are worse that farther we are from the ideal. Daylight Time accentuates the differences.
Also, the farter east and west we are in any time zone the more we develop chronic diseases, including heart disease.

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Oct 17, 2018 08:33:55   #
meridianlesilie Loc: mars
 
slatten49 wrote:
Reader's Digest, by Marissa Laliberte

As the days get longer in the spring, we set our clocks an hour forward to take advantage of the extra sunlight. Daylight saving time lasts until fall, when the clocks go back again. At this point, the custom doesn’t seem to mean much besides an extra hour of sleep (or an hour less in the spring), but it all started as a money-saving scheme.

You might have heard that Benjamin Franklin invented daylight saving time, but that’s not the case. In 1784, he wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to The Journal of Paris sharing a story of being woken up by the sun at 6 a.m., when he didn’t expect it before noon. “I considered that, if I had not been awakened so early in the morning, I should have slept six hours longer by the light of the sun, and in exchange have lived six hours the following night by candle-light,” he wrote. Candles cost money, but sunlight is free, so he laid out a plan to have Parisians get up with the sun in the spring and summer.

Maybe Franklin was half-serious, but the main point of the letter was to tease the French for being lazy and sleeping in. The letter didn’t spark any time changes (in France or the United States), but it did get to the core of daylight saving time: saving energy by shifting the clocks to get more daylight.

It wasn’t until the early 1900s that other advocates came up with their own time-change plans. In Great Britain, advocates lobbied for a form of daylight saving time, but the government rejected it. Looking for ways to save money during World War I, Germany latched on to the idea and launched their own daylight saving. It didn’t take long for other European countries and the United States to follow their lead. Find out why some states don't practice daylight saving time anymore.

These days, daylight saving time is becoming a bit of a controversy, thanks to newer studies showing it doesn't actually save money. Most countries outside of North America and Europe don’t bother changing their clocks, and neither do parts of Arizona and Hawaii. Now that the European Union is dropping the requirement, even more countries might keep their clocks the same year-round. For now, just enjoy that extra hour of sleep.
Reader's Digest, by Marissa Laliberte br br As t... (show quote)


STUPID OBAMA should have not changed it ..1st off i got a clock that changes automatically ..so it is programmed for bush's time change !!! then he screwed the trick or treater's when they go out for halloween ..so if i was a kid i'd kick obama in the ASS.. HE NEEDS IT

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