Daylight Saving Time...[views:2529][posts:38]_____________________________________ [Mar 4,2007 10:06pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Date change in 2007 On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday in March and end the first Sunday in November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to resume the 2005 Daylight Saving Time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete. Spelling and grammar The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time. Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Similar examples would be a mind expanding book or a man eating tiger. Saving is used in the same way as saving a ball game, rather than as a savings account. Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries. Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, but it is not as politically desirable. When in the morning? In the U.S., clocks change at 2:00 a.m. local time. In spring, clocks spring forward from 1:59 a.m. to 3:00 a.m.; in fall, clocks fall back from 1:59 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. In the EU, clocks change at 1:00 a.m. Universal Time. In spring, clocks spring forward from 12:59 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.; in fall, clocks fall back from 1:59 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. In the U.S., restaurants and bars have various closing policies. In many states, liquor cannot be served after 2:00 a.m. But at 2:00 a.m. in the fall, the time switches back one hour. So, can they serve alcohol for that additional hour in October? The official answer is that the bars do not stop serving liquor at 2:00 a.m., but actually at 1:59 a.m. So, they have already stopped serving when the time changes from Daylight Saving Time into Standard Time. In practice, however, many establishments stay open an extra hour in the fall. In the U.S., 2:00 a.m. was originally chosen as the changeover time because it was practical and minimized disruption. Most people were at home and this was the time when the fewest trains were running. It is late enough to minimally affect bars and restaurants, and it prevents the day from switching to yesterday, which would be confusing. It is early enough that the entire continental U.S. switches by daybreak, and the changeover occurs before most early shift workers and early churchgoers are affected. |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 4,2007 10:54pm - KeithMutiny ""] in all that bullshit, you couldnt say what fuckin day we're supposed to do it on? |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 4,2007 10:55pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Sunday, March 11. |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 4,2007 11:04pm - KeithMutiny ""] thank you. |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 4,2007 11:05pm - the_reverend ""] I was thinking the same thing mr. mutiny |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 4,2007 11:09pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] I meant to copy & paste that too, just forgot to. |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 4,2007 11:10pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] AUTOPSY_666 said: DST will begin on the second Sunday in March If your reading comprehension was any better your feeble little brains could have deciphered this. |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 4,2007 11:11pm - KeithMutiny ""] i didnt read it, i scanned it for a date. |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 4,2007 11:12pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Dumbass. |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 4,2007 11:22pm - KeithMutiny ""] there is a fine line between being a dumbass and practicing selective reading. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 12:42am - NIGGER ""] Welfare is in such a future, yo |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 1:03am - y_ddraig_goch ""] or you could own a calender wooooo |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 1:48am - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Or a calendAr. |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 8:58am - FuckIsMySignature ""] this is fucking gay. bush is a moron. |
| _________________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 9:02am - largefreakatzero ""] This is just bizarre and has not been highly publicized. Typical Bush administration. |
| ________________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 9:05am - SacreligionNLI ""] so is that saturday into sunday or sunday into monday? |
| __________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 9:20am - ~carina~ ""] i thought it was being publicized quite a bit. Everyone seems to be happy about it. |
| _________________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 9:25am - largefreakatzero ""] I knew about it, I just haven't heard alot about it. |
| _________________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 9:27am - largefreakatzero ""] SacreligionNLI said:so is that saturday into sunday or sunday into monday? Saturday into Sunday. |
| ________________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 9:38am - SacreligionNLI ""] those bastards...they're trying to take an hour of my partying away dicks |
| _____________________________ [Mar 5,2007 9:43am - Lamp ""] You'll get it back in the fall. |
| ________________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 9:43am - SacreligionNLI ""] BUT I WANT IT NOW! |
| ______________________________ [Mar 5,2007 10:38am - Yeti ""] they should leave it on the summer time and be done with it. |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 12:42pm - Metal Mega-Stud ""] Dwyer is my hero. His grammatical correctness is mega-fucking-Troo. We should all strive to his level of righteousness in our communicative abilities. For instance, this past Saturday while in Hartford, I found myself browsing his distro table when a particular title caught my eye. "How much is this CD?" I inquired. "How much for this CD is what you meant to ask," he replied. "The CD itself is not an exchangable currency, though it can be bartered for a pre-determined sum of US money." As I stood in speechless bewilderment, he then tried thrusting a Ton CD into my hand. "Do you have this? I still have some left." I then walked away, slightly confused by what just transpired, and scrawled "Dwyer is a poopoo head" across the bathroom wall. |
| ___________________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 12:44pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] classic. |
| ______________________________ [Mar 5,2007 12:46pm - Yeti ""] thats awesome. i for one love grammatical accuracy, its funny when people get all pissed off and claim "it doesnt matter, you know what i mean". they are just mad because they were caught looking dumb. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 3:30pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] That really happened. |
| _________________________________ [Mar 5,2007 3:34pm - Niccolai ""] Dorks. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 7,2007 3:27pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!!! |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 7,2007 3:27pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] this thread is lame. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 7,2007 3:29pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Informative AND lame. |
| ___________________________________________________ [Mar 7,2007 3:45pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] [img] |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 7,2007 3:47pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] that flyer rules |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 8,2009 6:34am - the_reverend ""] up. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 8,2009 3:13pm - AUTOPSY_666 ""] Down. |
| _______________________________________ [Mar 8,2009 5:04pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] You couldn't have bumped this last night? Shit completely fucked me up this morning. |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 8,2009 5:05pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] i got a pizza a 2 oclock in the morning cause they didnt know about daylight savingSSSSSSSSSSSSS time. i told the owner and he was pissed. |
| _________________________________ [Mar 8,2009 6:59pm - Aegathis ""] FuckIsMySignature said: i told the owner and he was pissed. Did he atleast say thanks for the info? Or we was he under the impression that you were trying to start shit with him?? |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 8,2009 7:44pm - the_reverend ""] this has fucked up my day... but day light at 7:34 rules. |