How did we come about the day light savings time.?
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it was made by congress to save energy.
884472
Yes actually. When Ben Franklin was arguing with the Creator about his roll in the daily lives of men, he had to excuse himself because of an appointment. That lead to a discussion of time and time keeping, and God said he was partial to the old system where daylight was divided into twelve hours and so was the dark. Anyhow eventually the Lord suggested daylight savings time as a compromise.
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In short it is called as Daylight Saving Time (DST)\n\nDST is mostly used in temperate regions, due to the considerable variation in the amount of \ndaylight versus darkness across the seasons in those regions.\n\nDaylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time, is a conventional local time adopted by many states of the world on a seasonal basis. Most commonly DST is obtained by adjusting the official local time forward, by one hour, for the spring, summer, and early autumn periods.
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OK, it depends on where you are at in the world. \nIf you are in New York city, subtract 5 hours from the GMT time to get local time. Chicago 6, Denver 7, Los Angeles 8; you get the picture. Of course, that changes with Daylight Savings time. \n\nTo know for sure, check your computer's time/date settings. For Windows PCs, double click the time in the lower-right corner. It'll bring up a box that'll have a "Time Zone" tab. If you go there, you should see the something like "GMT -xx:00", where the xx is a number of hours. Subtract that number (or add it, if the number is +xx:00), and that's the sent time.
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DST was first mentioned in 1784 by Benjamin Franklin in a letter to the editors of the Journal of Paris.[1] However, as the satirical article was humorous, it is extremely clear Franklin did not seriously propose that the French adopt it. The mere suggestion that a tax be levied on those who have their shades drawn during daylight hours, or simply that people should get up and go to bed earlier is ludicrous.[2]\n\nIt was first seriously proposed by William Willett in the "Waste of Daylight", published in 1907, but he was unable to get the British government to adopt it, despite considerable lobbying.\n\nThe idea of DST was first put into practice by the German government during the First World War, between April 30, 1916 and October 1, 1916. Shortly afterward, the United Kingdom followed suit, first adopting it between May 21 and October 1, 1916. On June 17, 1917 Newfoundland became the first North American jurisdiction to adopt DST with the passing of the Daylight Saving Act of 1917. On March 19, 1918, the U.S. Congress formally established several time zones, which had been in use by railroads and most cities since 1883; at the same time they made DST official, effective March 31, for the remainder of World War I. It was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919. The law, however, proved so unpopular, mostly because people rose and went to bed earlier than in current times, that it was repealed in 1919, when Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson's veto of the repeal.\n\nWhen DST begins, the day loses one hour (hour interchange of -1). At this date, a full hour is skipped and does not exist either before or after the transition, so this date includes only 23 hours. \nWhen DST ends, the day gains one hour (hour interchange of +1). At this date, the same hour occurs twice, first in daylight (summer) time, and then in standard (winter) time, so this date includes 25 hours. As such, October is the longest month in those places where DST ends in October, being 31 days and 1 hour long. In the Southern hemisphere, where DST commonly ends in March, that month is 31 days and 1 hour long. \nNote that some areas apply an offset of only one half-hour for their DST, such as Lord Howe Island: At the date of transition to DST, the legal day counts only 23 hours and 30 minutes, and at the date of transition back to standard time, the legal day counts 24 hours and 30 minutes
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From wikipedia:\n"Daylight saving time (also called DST) is the North American term for a system intended to "save" daylight (the British observe summer time, and likewise the Europeans). The official time is adjusted forward, (usually) one hour from its official standard time, remaining that way for the duration of the spring and summer months. This is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school."\n\nIn my own wordings, it's adjusting time in summer/winter so you won't be going to school/work when it's dark, or waking up at 6am and the sun is too high in the sky.\nCountries usually adjust the time to make the change between summer/winter in sunrise/sunset easier on people.
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No one really sets the dates. Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.\n This is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school. The "saved" daylight is spent on evening activities which get more daylight, rather than being "wasted" while people sleep past dawn.
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I like it when it stays lighter later. Who care if its dark in the morning? I would rather have an extra hour of light in the evening!!!
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At work we just got motion sensitive switches.  If there isn't any movement for so long, the lights turn themselves off.  Saves a bunch on electricity.  Of course they automatically turn themselves back on when we walk through.
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Benjamin Franklin  was among the first Americans to discuss the idea of Daylight Saving Time. In fact, he proposed the idea while serving as U.S. minister to France as a way of conserving the cost of lighting for shops. The purpose has been to essentially utilize more of the daylight hours in spring and summer for daytime activities. Simply put, the Sun is up longer in the sky (rises earlier and sets later) in summer. Clocks and common mechanical timepieces keep what's called civil time, which roughly corresponds to the passage of a fictitious "average" Sun through our sky. This is necessary since the Sun does not rise and set on a regular basis, but changes by as much as 15 minutes throughout the course of the year.\n\nDaylight Saving Time was generally adopted by countries around World War I, but President Wilson repealed the United States' mandatory daylight savings law on March 31, 1918. During World War II, Daylight Savings Time was reestablished by law on a year-round basis, and later seen as a fuel saving measure during the Arab Oil Embargo crisis of 1973-74. In late 1974, standard time was brought back. During World War II, the U.S. and some other countries implemented "double" daylight savings time consisting of a two hour shift.
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change all your lightbulbs to the energy saving flourescent ones.  and try and carpool when necessary to save on gas.  Turn your thermostat down a few degrees and just be aware.
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it works roughly like a sine curve.  On June 21st (roughly) you have the longest day, after which you start losing daylight.  It starts slowly, and accelerates.  The pace of loss is highest on/around the autumnal equinox (which is around September 21st - this year it was on the 23rd).  The pace of loss then slows, to reach zero on the shortest day of the year, around Dec. 21st (Dec 22nd this year).\n\nThen obviously we start gaining daylight, slowly at first, the pace accelerates until it reaches a maximum around the vernal equinox (March 21st in 2007), the the pace slows until it reaches zero around the summer solstice around June 21st (will indeed be June 21st in 2007).\n\n\nHope this helps
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It was invented during world war 2 to increase production. It was called "war time".  Basically instead of keeping to one time frame it has you start your day earlier in the summer and the "normal" time it would start in the winter by one hour.  The idea was that if someone got to work earlier in the summer they would hopefully stay a little later since there was still daylight.  It helped production by %5-10.
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They built observatories.  They were not like the ones we have today, but the marked where and when certian things would happen.  The idea is simple, though its often lost with modern people: The sun doesnt rise in the same place each day.\n\nThe pivotal dates are Dec 21, Mar 21, June 21 and Sept 21.  On december 21, the sun will rise as far to the south that it can (the solstice). Where I live, we only have 8-9 hours of sunlight then.  As the new year progresses, then the sun will rise further north.  On Mar 21, its half way on its trip and we have 12-hrs of sun (the equinox).  On June 21 then the sun is as far north as possible at sunrise (the solsitce) and then it turns back around. Of course on Sept 21 we have 12-hr days again and the cycle continues.\n\nPeople would just make a place to sit with rocks all around in a circle.  Where the rocks were showed when these dates were near.
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work during day light
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here you have the answer\nhttp://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html
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Four hours after you left (assuming you spent no time at your destination), and yet you were travelling back toward home at 2am Sunday morning in the spring when the country goes on "daylight savings time."\n\nIf that's the wrong answer, your informatio for answering the question was incomplete.