Finally!
Stop the press! George W. finally made a decision that I am happy with! In case you haven't heard, starting in 2007, daylight savings time will begin 4 weeks earlier and end 1 week later. I know everyone is complaining about how this will affect technology and blah, blah, but personally, I'm perfectly willing to manually change the clock on my computer in exchange for an extra month of DST. I will choose to ignore the Y2K-like propaganda and look forward to 2007, however it's going to take a lot more than that for me to stop hating Bush. Like not lying to the nation. Just a suggestion.
posted by Jenny G @ 9:51 AM
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I'm with you, girl.
Okay, so I'm pretty sure if you don't already think I'm a total idiot, you will after this.
But--I'm sorry--what? I'm so confused. Does this mean that it will be dark more of the year, light more of the year, or neither, and we'll just change our clocks? Is this a human-made decision or an environmental/solar system one?
goddess - Great minds think alike!
berkeley - LOL You're not an idiot! It will be light longer, but it's just a trick with the clocks. We set our clocks ahead the 1st Sunday in April and set them back the last (I think) Sunday in October. This time is known as daylight savings time. DST was created by the government in the early 1900s (I believe) to give farmers more daylight hours to work. The change is a human-made change.
The first day of spring has almost equal hours of light and dark. Between spring and summer the amount of daylight increases every day. The first day of summer is the longest day, daylight wise. After that, it gets darker sooner until the first day of fall, when it's equal again. Then the first day of winter is the shortest day, daylight wise. After that it gets dark later every day, and so on. This doesn't change; only our clocks do. Some parts of the US don't even observe DST.
Here's a website that probably explains it a million times better than I did:
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/
Oh, but I know about DST in general, the whole "fall back, spring up" thing that happens around Halloween and Easter. I just didn't know what we were doing this time or if the Earth was nearing its end or something of the sorts. Thanks for your help, though, that explains it in-depth. :)
That's why people never ask me to explain things--I'm pretty wordy :-P
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