Day Light Savings
By destinycole
@destinycole (827)
March 13, 2007 9:41am CST
How did or does it affect you. In less than 2 weeks, the UK goes forward one hour.
Yet America went forward this week, thats 3 weeks earlier than normal.
Why to save energy, at least that is the logic behind it. Yet it has been IT nightmare and companies probably lost or will lose money through this early change.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html
At 2 a.m. on March 11, groggy Americans will turn their clocks forward one hour, marking the beginning of Daylight Saving Time (DST).
The federal law that established "daylight time" in this country does not require any area to observe daylight saving time. But if a state chooses to observe DST, it must follow the starting and ending dates set by the law. From 1986 to 2006 this has been the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October, but starting in 2007, it will be observed from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, adding about a month to daylight saving time.
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@RobinJohn (203)
• India
13 Mar 07
hey if you ask me i would rather say no. i mean why going for a hassle for changeing the timings, can't we work the same way as we were doing, and even if you want to utilize the day time, do it who is stoping you from that but is it really necessary to change the timmings...
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@GuateMom (1411)
• Canada
13 Mar 07
Here in Guatemala, Daylight Savings Time isn´t really established, so this year we didn´t change. But it still affects me because I have family back in Canada. We were two hours apart before and now we have only one hour of difference, which makes it a lot easier for me to communicate with my sisters!
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@SageMother (2277)
• United States
13 Mar 07
I am really sick of doing it.
There was one year during the last oil crises in the 70's, where they left DST in place the whole year. It makes more sense to do this if they are TRULY doing it to cut oil consumption. It would be easier on everyone to remain on the same circadian rythim.
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@Eskimo (2315)
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17 Mar 07
I've always had trouble sleeping so moving the clocks forward or backward always causes me extra problems, making it more difficult to sleep.
There is a suggestion that England moves an hour ahead of Scotland, being 1 hour ahead of GMT in Winter, and 2 hours ahead of GMT in summer. This was tried out a number of years ago, and while it may have been suitable in England, it was totally unsuitable for Scotland, with school children going to school in the dark for several months, causing an increase in the number of accidents. This is hardly noticable if the clocks stay on GMT in the winter.
On December 21 London is quite light at 9 am, but Aberdeen is totally dark, and if the clocks change then it will be well after 10am before it gets light in the North of Scotland.
@linuslinus (48)
• United States
13 Mar 07
being new in the US, it got me quite mixed up a bit. i've adjusted well enough to it now. it's just an hour anyway. ;)
@Rexy_leigh (1189)
• Philippines
16 Mar 07
I had to an hour from my sleep because of the time change due to daylight savings. I had to come to the office an hour earlier coz we're following our client's time who are based in KY. This is the first time actually that I learned about this daylight savings coz Philippines never get too affected by this even before.
