Daylight Savings???

Two points...

1) People like myself, who are employed overnight, really hate DST for reasons other than sleep. Most of out work depends on a schedule and tonight's schedule is already in the dumper due to the fact that after 0159pst we get to 0300pdt. That kind of messes with everything we have scheduled for the 2 o'clock hour.

Point 2) Apologies for being a little pedantic and obsessive over this, but it is "Daylight SAVING Time". Not "Savings". (Just something else for me to complain about tonight.)

Thanks for the venting opportunity.

Edited by Snaike - 11 Mar 2018 at 12:07am

Originally posted by Snaike Point 2) Apologies for being a little pedantic and obsessive over this, but it is "Daylight SAVING Time". Not "Savings". (Just something else for me to complain about tonight.)

Your comment made me a bit curious, as I've always heard it both ways and never thought much about it.

Per both Merriam-Webster and Oxford "savings" is not incorrect, per se, but rather a variant of the word. However, "saving" is certainly the original U.S. construction, which can be seen in Chapter 7 of the Standard Time Act of 1918, which formally brought DST to the U.S. (copying Germany, basically ). So my guess is the extra "s" is a regional addition that's became prolific enough that even the dictionaries started to add it, but insofar as it appears in legal texts, it still doesn't have it.

More on topic, I voted "Yes."


Edited by Tidgxor - 11 Mar 2018 at 4:56am

@bprat22: check it out, Title 15 United States Code Sec. 261 (as amended) with enough "subject to's " and exceptions  to make you say "whaaaat?"
 

 (no vote from me, the whole concept is kind of ridiculous IMHO)


Edited by hoserator - 11 Mar 2018 at 8:58am

Originally posted by Cretae But the resta youse? You rather waste that daylight on 4:30 in the morning? What good is that?

I'm a morning guy.   

This is what I love about DS forum. It is not simply a discussion board for buying a PC but rather a platform for examining complex issues of the world today. A place where real intellectuals can congregate. To stress this point, I would not be surprised if Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates were frequent visitors.

Edited by Batman34 - 12 Mar 2018 at 3:11pm

I believe the extension of Day Light Saving Time was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and was signed into effect by George W. Bush. The one thing to consider with this is that it should be everyone or no one. It would be silly for me in MA to drive to say NJ and pass through 3 different time zones because each state would or wouldn't be adhering to it. That would make no sense to me anyway. Some interesting (or non-interesting depending on your view - lol) factoids I dug up on Daylight Saving:

1784 - Benjamin Franklin is thought to have come up with the idea for daylight-saving time. In a whimsical letter to a French journal, he said that Parisians could save thousands of francs a years by waking up earlier during the summer because it would prevent them from having to buy so many candles to light the evening hours.

1918 - The U.S. first adopts daylight-saving time, in the same act that created standard time zones, in an effort to save energy during World War I. It didn't prove popular, and, as a result, it was repealed the following year.

1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted "war-time," a year-round daylight-saving time to save energy during World War II. After the year-round shift ended in 1945, many states adopted their own summer time changes.

1966 - Congress established a national pattern for summer time changes with the Uniform Time Act. The act came in response from the transportation industry, which demanded consistency across time zones. The U.S. Department of Transportation now oversees time changes in the United States.

1973 - An oil embargo by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries led Congress to enact a test period of year-round daylight-saving time in 1974 and 1975. The test period was controversial; it ended after complaints that the dark winter mornings endangered children traveling to school. The U.S. returned to summer daylight-saving time in 1975.

1986 - The Federal law is amended to start daylight-saving time on the first Sunday in April, beginning in 1987. The ending date of daylight-saving time was never changed, and remained the last Sunday in October through 2006.

2005 - On August 8, President Bush signs the Energy Policy Act of 2005 into law. Part of the act will extend daylight-saving time starting in 2007, from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.

2007 - Daylight-saving time begins on Sunday, March 11 and ends on Sunday, November 4.