why do we have to change the clocks back and then forward again, why cant we keep the same time???
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It's partly because of school children, when clocks go back like last week, it is lighter in the mornings making it safer for them to walk to school.  When the children go home in the afternoon, it is still light enough despite it getting darker an hour earlier.\nWhy not leave the clocks there?  It is because farmers in the summer like to have an extra hour of light in the evenings so they can get more work done.  In general people like to have light longer in the evenings, especially when sitting out in the sunshine.\n\nIt does seem odd to keep messing with the clocks - some people go into work an hour early or late because they forget to change them.  My son has a Sunday job and he was up an hour earlier than he needed to be last weekend.  I just had an extra hour in bed - it does have some uses!\n\nPersonally I don't really mind the changes - in autumn it makes it feel like Christmas is nearly here, and in spring it cheers me up because summer and long evenings are on their way.
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if you find out, you need to let me know...\nwhit_rocks@yahoo.com\n\nif you want to learn about more mysteries of life, i suggest you read Why do clocks run clockwise?
943172
Don't confuse the workings of clocks with the passage of time. Clocks, like any mechanical device, are prone to errors and can fail over time (no pun intended). The passage of time will happen whether we have clock to measure it or not. That makes no difference.\n\nWe now do have atomic clocks that utilize the radioactive decays of heavy elements as a measure of time and they are accurate to a billionth of a second, but even atomic clocks are NOT 100% accurate. So as with any measurements we make in the process of scientific study, there will be errors. But I think in most cases, the accuracy of an atomic clock is more than acceptable.
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what does that mean?\nErr, atomic clocks adjusted back 1 second every few years to compensate for the earth slowing?\nMetric clock instead of 24 hour/60 minute?\nWhat are you asking?
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Daylight Saving Time is there to try to make more efficient use of daylight hours and therefore use less electricity and other resources.\n\nDuring the summer months, there are several hours of daylight before most people are awake.  By moving the clocks forward, everyone in effect gets up one hour earlier and so uses some of that daylight.\n\nThe important bit to remember is that moving the clocks does not actually move time, it just means that we get up earlier and pretend that we haven't.  If you wake up at 6 normally, then moving the clocks forward by an hour means that you actually get up at 5 but your clock tells you that it is 6.  We could all save a lot of hassle twice a year by just leaving the clocks where they are stop pretending that we are still getting up at the same time.\n\nThe attached link has loads of information about it, but it does suffer from the delusion that moving the clocks actually moves time.\n\nQuote "We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening".  Clearly total nonesense.  All it does is mean that we can do something an hour earlier than before but pretend that it is the same time.
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It didn't quite happen that way.\n\nPeople used the sun and sun dials for a long time before our current system of time. Then they started tracking night-time times with water-clocks and similar things.\n\nBut there weren't universally recognized time systems, or such things as our current standard hours and minutes.\n\nWhen clocks (as we know them) began to be made, there wasn't a universal, world-wide time setting.\n\nMonks created the first machines to measure time, to "sound" the time for their religious rituals. (They didn't have universal standards, but varied by place and religious order.)\n\nAround 1330 he got our standard hour.\n\nTowns started building clock towers to sound time for the town (people didn't have their own clocks yet), measuring time from noon to noon or maybe sunset to sunset (or maybe it varied) in 24 1-hour increments.\n\nMinutes came much later.\n\nI don't know when we started world-wide synchronization.
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check if the time zone u have set up is correct on your pc... \n\ngo to the time display on your taskbar --->\n right-click on the time--->click on adjust date/time---> \nselect the time zone---> adjst the time zone--> \n\nand there is an option at the bottom to fix time for daylight savings check the box... click ok if the time displayed is correct \n\nelse\n\ncorrect the time and you are all set now!
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Travelling back in time is not allowed by einstein's theory of relativity...however if you can instantly teleport youself to some faraway star,say a 101 light years away, you might be able to catch einstein receiving his nobel prize!! as stated earlier, there is no master grandfather clock that is regularly ticking away the seconds..rather that rate is adjustable...but one may zip into the future..consider an example where you are on a space-ship at a speed of 0.99990 c that is going away from the earth and coming back..in your time frame say,it takes about twenty years..using lorentz transformations, the time for your to and fro motion is close to 450 years!!
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I don't see how they can do away with them. It is a fact that the time is not running exactly to the second every year. If they did away with them they would eventually have to adjust something or atomic time would be different then local time.
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I know how you are feeling. Here in Indiana, it's the first time in many years that we used Daylight Savings Time. Until yesterday, parts of Indiana and Arizona were exempt from using DST. Since our govenor signed a new law, we are now on track with everyone else. I had to set all of our watches and clockes ahead 1 hour for the first time.
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The main reason we have daylight savings time is to make better use of the daylight.  At most places in the world, the amount of sunlight in each day varies depending upon the seasons.  \n\nIf we did not have daylight savings time, at some points during the summer, the sun would be rising at 5:30 in the morning.\n\nThis website has a very detailed description of daylight savings time.\n\nhttp://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html\n\nHope it helps!
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The time will always change until the end of time....
482337
Tell them that the time changes one hour back instead of forward.
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The person above was correct since there are different time zones for different places in the USA.\n\nHere is a site with a map with the current times and the zones:\n\nhttp://www.worldtimezone.com/
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We don't have daylight savings time here
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UK. The clocks go one hour forward and we become BST (British Summer Time).\nOtherwise(in autumn - the Fall) we revert to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).\nIf you are in the Army - just to confuse things - we have ZULU time.\nThis means that no matter where you are in the world, you still have the same clock!\nI hope I haven't broken the Official Secrets Act by revealing this!\nPS: As long as you wake up, you know that you are alive...doesn't matter what time it is. Good luck!