"Spring Forward" ! DST

"Spring Forward", simply means to turn your clocks forward and hour. To some folks, that's a big deal. DST, Some hate it, some love it, some don't care one way or the other.

For all you March Madness fans out there – don’t you dare forget to set your clocks forward an hour before going to bed on Saturday! You wouldn’t want to miss that important championship game now, would you? Same goes for all those out there that might have plans, appointments, or even church services today.

Forgetting Daylight Saving Time would ultimately mean being an hour LATE. You wouldn't want to be late for work on Monday would you? Jerry is right, daylight Ssving time is not recognized in Arizona, Hawaii, some counties in Indiana, as well as the US territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the US Virgin Islands. Individuals in these areas do not have to concern themselves with DST unless they have travel plans to areas recognizing the time shift.

The basic premise of Spring Forward is to conserve energy. There’s a lot of debate over whether or not the change still saves energy during modern days where everyone is plugged in 24/7. The most recent changes to Daylight Savings Time took place in 2007, when a law signed by George W. Bush in 2005 went into effect. This law extended DST.

Is DST always one hour ahead of normal time?

Today it is almost always one hour ahead, but throughout history there have been several variants on this, such as half adjustment (30 minutes) or double adjustment (two hours), and adjustments of 20 and 40 minutes have also been used. A two-hour adjustment was used in several countries during the 1940s and elsewhere at times. A half adjustment was sometimes used in New Zealand in the first half of the 20th century. Sometimes DST is used for a longer period than just the summer, as it was in the United States during World War II. From February 3, 1942 to September 30, 1945most of the United States had DST all year; it was called “War Time.”
(Almost all of the preceding information was gleaned from the internet.)
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By the way, I have had some good response from some alumni about keeping the blog and also moving it to this location. We'll see how it works out. At least this blog isn't costing me anything but time.

Later . . .