i heartily concur, Brent! i was telling my mom the other day that this just PROVES how artificial man's time construct is!
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Interesting information about DST around the world...........
by Sunnygal41 indaylight saving timea trip around the world reveals that time isn't a synchronized scienceby john gettings and borgna brunnermap of world time zones full size.
u.s. daylight saving time schedule2004: april 4 - october 312005: april 3 - october 302006: april 2 - october 29new federal law in effect2007: march 11 - nov. 42008: march 9 - nov. 22009: march 8 - nov. 12010: march 14 - nov. 72011: march 13 - nov. 6related linksencyclopedia: daylight saving timealmanac: time & calendarcurrent time in u.s. time zonescurrent time around the worldat 2 a.m. on november 4, 2007, groggy americans will turn their clocks back one hour, marking the end of daylight saving time (dst).. the federal law that established "daylight time" in the united states does not require any area to observe daylight saving time.
but if a state chooses to observe dst, it must follow the starting and ending dates set by the law.
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Interesting information about DST around the world...........
by Sunnygal41 indaylight saving timea trip around the world reveals that time isn't a synchronized scienceby john gettings and borgna brunnermap of world time zones full size.
u.s. daylight saving time schedule2004: april 4 - october 312005: april 3 - october 302006: april 2 - october 29new federal law in effect2007: march 11 - nov. 42008: march 9 - nov. 22009: march 8 - nov. 12010: march 14 - nov. 72011: march 13 - nov. 6related linksencyclopedia: daylight saving timealmanac: time & calendarcurrent time in u.s. time zonescurrent time around the worldat 2 a.m. on november 4, 2007, groggy americans will turn their clocks back one hour, marking the end of daylight saving time (dst).. the federal law that established "daylight time" in the united states does not require any area to observe daylight saving time.
but if a state chooses to observe dst, it must follow the starting and ending dates set by the law.
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Daylight Saving Time
A trip around the world reveals that time isn't a synchronized science
by John Gettings and Borgna Brunner
Map of world time zones – full size
U.S. Daylight Saving Time Schedule 2004: April 4 - October 31 2005: April 3 - October 30 2006: April 2 - October 29 New Federal Law In Effect 2007: March 11 - Nov. 4 2008: March 9 - Nov. 2 2009: March 8 - Nov. 1 2010: March 14 - Nov. 7 2011: March 13 - Nov. 6 Related Links
At 2 a.m. on November 4, 2007, groggy Americans will turn their clocks back one hour, marking the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST).
The federal law that established "daylight time" in the United States does not require any area to observe daylight saving time. But if a state chooses to observe DST, it must follow the starting and ending dates set by the law. From 1986 to 2006 this was the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October, but starting in 2007, it is observed from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, adding about a month to daylight saving time. (See: New Federal Law.)
No More Sunlight in Arizona and Hawaii
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.
The Dawning of DST in Indiana
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.
New Federal Law—Springing Forward in March, Back in November
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. As of 2007, DST starts the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November.
Comparisons Around the World
More than one billion people in about 70 countries around the world observe DST in some form. Here are interesting facts about some of these countries:
- Most of Canada uses Daylight Saving Time. Some exceptions include the majority of Saskatchewan and parts of northeastern British Columbia. In the fall of 2005, Manitoba and Ontario announced that like the United States, they would extend daylight time starting in 2007. The attorney general of Ontario commented that "it is important to maintain Ontario's competitive advantage by coordinating time changes with our major trading partner, and harmonizing our financial, industrial, transportation, and communications links." Other provinces have indicated that they may also follow suit.
- It wasn't until 1996 that our NAFTA neighbors in Mexico adopted DST. Now all three Mexican time zones are on the same schedule as the United States.
- Also in 1996, members of the European Union agreed to observe a "summer-time period" from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October.
- Most countries near the equator don't deviate from standard time.
- In the Southern Hemisphere, where summer arrives in what we in the Northern Hemisphere consider the winter months, DST is observed from late October to late March.
- Three large regions in Australia do not participate in DST. Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland stay on standard time all year. The remaining south-central and southeastern sections of the continent (which is where Sydney and Melbourne are found) make the switch. This results in both vertical and horizontal time zones Down Under during the summer months.
- China, which spans five time zones, is always eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and it does not observe DST.
- In Japan, DST was implemented after World War II by the U.S. occupation. In 1952 it was abandoned because of strong opposition by Japanese farmers.
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
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al stewart- year of the cat
by BIG D inthat song just came on, god i love it!.
feel that way about any song?.
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Sunnygal41
She comes out of the sun with a silk dress on
I have a GORGEOUS flame red silk dress I used to wear to the Hall.................it's sooo beautiful.............
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al stewart- year of the cat
by BIG D inthat song just came on, god i love it!.
feel that way about any song?.
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HEY, FLYIN!!!!!!how ya doin' GURL???~~~~(waving madly)
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al stewart- year of the cat
by BIG D inthat song just came on, god i love it!.
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ME TOO, BIG D! It is sooo haunting, always evoked such bittersweet feelings for some strange reason............also love "Imagine"............and the song by Buffalo Springfield.........lol, except I always envision it with The Muppets singing it..........that was hilarious...........
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How real has your ONLINE IDENTITY become to you?
by nicolaou inmy name is not really nicolaou - i just chose it as an alias like so many of us do.
thing is, people have been calling me nic' online for almost nine years now so who am i to say that nic' is not real.. if i'm ever disfellowshipped i know that one of the first things i'll do is 'come out' on jwd and tell you all who i really am - will that mean that i'm killing 'nic'?
should we all resist getting attached to our usernames and avatars?.
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for me, "Nic", it was the other way around..........I WAS Sunnygal41 in real life, and claimed her as a "Coming of Age" type thing........the whole getting divorced, leaving the Borg, etc..........
Terri
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Anyone good with dream interpretations?
by Sunnygal41 ini had this pretty interesting dream last night, and was trying to figure out what message was trying to be conveyed to me, if any.
i dreamt that i was with my coworker/supervisor from work and we were going to go for a walk for exercise.
this part of the dream is hazy...........we end up in a couple's home, and they have a new baby~~the next part of the dream is clearer, because it is about a family member: my sister.
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WOW!!! You guys are all freakin' awesome!! You've given me some great NEW perspectives on this whole dream...........sorry that some of the details were fuzzy, but, they were in the dream, or rather, my memory of them are now...........I felt extreme JOY when I saw the new baby my sister had.......I LOVE the idea that a couple of you put forth about my sister having new spiritual growth or ideas............i'm going to give my MOM a call and tell HER about the dream, and maybe she'll share it with my sis, who is a straight laced JW............and, I'll be checking in from time to time to reread the posts and hopefully see NEW ones~~~excellent comments.........very helpful!!
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What smells bring back old memories?
by John Doe infresh cut hay in may?.
spring rainshowers?.
a creek with active marine life?.
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Hog shit (hey I live in Iowa, remember) - the family farm
for me, it's cow and horse shit!
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What smells bring back old memories?
by John Doe infresh cut hay in may?.
spring rainshowers?.
a creek with active marine life?.
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A bit in reverse here, but tasting "Sugar in the Raw" reminds me of how a sugar mill town smelled like when I stayed there for several weeks. Ah, the stench of molasses.
lol.........I was going to say the smell of Paper Mill pollution...........smells like the whole town got inundated with rotten eggs or everyone's catalytic converter on their car was acting up..............my mom was born and raised in a paper mill town in upstate NY and we always went there to visit family and my sister and i would smell that smell and know we were getting close to gramma and grampa's after almost five hours of riding in a car to get there............we could smell that smell from an HOUR away, lol!
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What smells bring back old memories?
by John Doe infresh cut hay in may?.
spring rainshowers?.
a creek with active marine life?.
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HAY!!!!!!!
AUTUMN LEAVES
DOVE SOAP........my grandmother always had it at her house and we used it when we stayed with her...............
