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Spring forward March 9: Daylight savings time returns
By Cornelia de Bruin The Daily Times
Article Launched: 03/03/2008 12:00:00 AM MST
FARMINGTON — Unless you enjoy being teased — or late to church — mark March 9 on your calender or engrave it on your contact lenses so you don't forget to change your clocks the night before.
March 9, this Sunday, marks the beginning of daylight-saving time. This is the second year that adds four weeks of "spring forward" time. It's because of the Energy Policy Act passed by Congress three years ago.
Legislators intended the four extra weeks to save about 280,000 barrels of oil — 10,000 each day. The change takes daylight-saving time up to Nov. 2.
There's historical precedent for the change.
The spring/fall time change began during World War 1, put into effect to save energy for war production by taking advantage of the later hours of daylight between April and October. It was reinstituted during World War II for the same reason.
Following about a decade of confusion, while states and communities debated the merits of springing forward and falling back, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act to
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standardize the length of daylight-saving time in 1966.
The change didn't completely simplify time-keeping, however.
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa, closer to the equator than the continental U.S. and Alaska, opted not to tinker with their clocks. The amount of sunshine they receive during the year is more consistent at their lower latitudes.
Arizonans, who stoically suffer through consistent summer high temps they call "hundred-and-hell" degrees, decided years ago their extra daylight hours could come early in the morning. Visitors to their state are startled when the sun rises as early as 4:30 a.m. around June 21, the Summer Solstice.
Indiana used to be among the exceptions. Its Legislature passed a measure that shifts the time in some north-eastern counties and the counties near Louisville Kentucky to shift from Eastern to Central time without resetting their clocks when the rest of the country leaps ahead in the spring and reclaims its lost hour in the fall.
Not to be left out of the picture, the European Union shifts to Universal Time on March 30 and back to regular time Oct. 26.
Time officially changes at 2 a.m., the hour chosen because it seemed least interruptive to schedules. March 9 at 1:59 a.m. the time will magically become 3 a.m., reversing the process Nov. 2.
It's a bit problematic for bars and nightclubs, some of which serve liquor after 2 a.m.
Many states prohibit the sale of alcohol after 2 a.m. — the hour the country reverts to Standard time each fall. Officially the bars do last call at 1:59 a.m. to stay legal. In practice, however, many establishments bite the bullet and stay open an hour longer.
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Remember everyone you saw it first here on IHD. Don't be early anything.
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Also please remember that this is your weekend to change the batteries in all your smoke detectors. On the positive side it also means winter is getting closer to being over....Boxman
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Also please remember that this is your weekend to change the batteries in all your smoke detectors. On the positive side it also means winter is getting closer to being over....Boxman
Not down here Boxman. The change of daylight savings means it's getting chilly and the end of Summer is near :(
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Sorry to hear that Wattle, but for someone living in the snow belt it is a simple little reminder that warmth is on the way...Boxman
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO please don't take the sun away from us !!!! :ausflag; :'(
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I wish they would stop playing the time. Set the clock and quit fooling with it. Spring ahead, fall back. Just leave it. Gaining and losing an hour does nothing but screw up one's sleeping pattern for a month.
Sandyb
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I was just getting used to this time. So wait.. if we go up an hour.. It will be darker longer in the morning or at nite.. I'm sooo confused!... :urcrazy;
I still dont see the point.. so now.. when I wake up.. I have to turn on lights.. and that saves what???
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Why can't they just leave the time alone. I just get use to it being one way and then they turn around and change it again. :banghead;
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I am SOOO excited that it's DST again and the fact that it is nice and early this year. I love having the longer days and Spring is almost here, woohoo!!!
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I wish it was one way or the other all the time.
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I wish we had DST and Standard Time -- both at the same time! I'd like for the sun to come up at 6 a.m. and go down at 9 p.m. (hey, I'm scared of the dark!).
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The big reason they do it so early is because they claim it saves X amount of gallons of oil because we don't to use lights or heat as much.
I refer to it as Evil Daylight Savings Time because I'm going to lose an hour and I have enough trouble sleeping as it is without having an hour stolen from me.
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I did not need the hour stolen from me now. I do not adjust ever to the new time.
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I finally got a little extra sleep today. Maybe now I will adjust? I love the daylight later in the afternoon, but it's still pretty dark in the morning.
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Fall back tonight - don't forget!
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how can i forgett, all april has talked about this weekend is an extra hour of sleep :rofl;
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(eastern) standard time, I LOVE IT!!!