by Undecided 41 Replies latest jw friends
I had 15 to reset to daylight saving time last night. There was the cook stove, coffee maker, mivrowave, TVs, alarm clocks, electric clocks, wind up clocks, car clocks, wrist watch. The DVD player and computers did it automatically. I wonder if I missed any?
Ken P.
So far 3.
14 (thanks for reminding me about the car clock)
And I thought it was only a European thing...
(5 so far).
9 me too I forgot the car clock that will make it 10 when I do it
Narkissos, most of the US does observe Daylight Savings Time, but not all. Arizona is one state that does not use DST.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html
Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) and Hawaii and the territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa are the only places in the U.S. that do not observe DST but instead stay on "standard time" all year long. And if you've spent any time in the sweltering summer sun in those regions you can understand why residents don't need another hour of sunlight.
Until April 2005, when Indiana passed a law agreeing to observe daylight saving time, the Hoosier state had its own unique and complex time system. Not only is the state split between two time zones, but until recently, only some parts of the state observed daylight saving time while the majority did not.
Under the old system, 77 of the state's 92 counties were in the Eastern Time Zone but did not change to daylight time in April. Instead they remained on standard time all year. That is, except for two counties near Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky., which did use daylight time.
But the counties in the northwest corner of the state (near Chicago) and the southwestern tip (near Evansville), which are in the Central Time Zone, used both standard and daylight time.
The battle between the old system and DST was contentious and hard-won—bills proposing DST had failed more than two dozen times until finally squeaking through the state legislature in April 2005. As of April 2, 2006, the entire state of Indiana joined 48 other states in observing Daylight Saving Time. But it wasn't quite as simple and straightforward as all that—telling time in Indiana remains something of a bewildering experience: eighteen counties now observed Central Daylight Time and the remaining 74 counties of Indiana observe Eastern Daylight Time.
Months after Indiana passed the law that got it in step with the rest of the country, the federal government announced a major change in Daylight Saving Time. In Aug. 2005, Congress passed an energy bill that included extending Daylight Saving Time by about a month. Beginning in 2007, DST will start the second Sunday of March and end on the first Sunday of November.
7and 3 to go
32 and not done yet. (Thankfully my computer resets itself automatically!)
That's what happens when everyone has their own watches and cell phones and other gadgets.
Oops, forgot the watches, make that 16.
None yet. Just starting. I think we only have 8 to change. The rest change themselves. But thanks for the reminder.
DrZ
