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Anonymous

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Hopefully everyone got up at 2AM and changed their clocks back and are now running on the right Government time...Last night was the night Montana drunks love and bartenders hate- as the bars stay open another hour :wink: :lol:

I found this on another website- was just too good to pass up:




Daylight Saving Time Yields Massive Daylight Surplus


Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman announced Monday that the country's seven-month-long effort to conserve sunshine has resulted in the largest national daylight surplus since October 2005.

"We have built up over 200 hours of this precious, life-giving resource," said Bodman, noting that "the sun's rays are not going to last forever." "We have decided it would be most prudent not to squander this valuable daylight by distributing it to Americans, instead suggesting that they all just wake up a little earlier."

Bodman said the surplus will be stored in the Strategic Daylight Reserve—a system of opaque, sealed-off underground tanks located in Arizona—and only tapped in the case of the sun burning out or a particularly rainy afternoon.
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It all goes in the Strategic Daylight Reserve. Makes as much sense as Daylight Savings Time.
 

Silver

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I sure am glad not to be bothered with the silliness of daylight savings time. I do get a kick out of hearing all the anectdotes related to it though.
 

cowsense

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Saskatchewan is one of the few jurisdictions that does not change time! The CST/MST meridian runs pretty well up the center of the province and made for lots of confusion. Years ago the powers that be set the entire province on CST daylight savings yearround. Now there's a real push out of the east siders and the city folks to start changing clocks so they can be close to Manitoba time and to get extra golf time in........doesn't seem to compute that they'll be on double daylight time and synchronized right in with Winterpeg and Chicago!! :mad: :mad: Personaly I can't wait for dark so we can quit work............mind you I never need much of an excuse for quitting!!!!
 

IL Rancher

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I like the time change personally... Without it sunrise would be darn early in the summer or darn, darn late in the winter... I kind of like the sun to help me get going in the moring, these past 2 weeks have been tough with how cloudy it has been and the sun not coming up until late.. Several days it was still almost dark at 8am... Today was abreath of fresh air with it light out at 6:30...

Tha being said if edidn't spring back forward 4am sunrise would get old real fast as I am a night owl more than a early bird.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I hate the time change. Gets dark wayyyy too early. Even tho it's not so bad to deal with these days, since Mr Lilly gets off work at 1pm...but used to when he got off at 5 and it's already dark, weren't no fun puttin out hay in the dark. Perdy much for those that do have day jobs to go to, they hafta pile everthang in on the weekends to get anything "ranch wise" accomplished. Wish they'd leave it like it was before the change.
 

Silver

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We don't have daylight savings time maybe because there's no daylight to save :???: in the winter months. The difference between light at 9am and light at 10am just doesn't matter. As far as summer goes, it's only dark for 3 or 4 hrs anyway (if it's good and cloudy), so the whole idea is a waste of time.
'Sides, it's nice to confuse people outside our timezone with the concept of not changing our clocks. Especially Albertans (they seem to think the world revolves around them :wink: :lol: ). They always ask, "are you on Alberta time now?" and I reply, " We never change, so obviously you're on OUR time! (At least until spring, when Vancouver switches over to OUR time!") :lol: :lol:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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summer time we have ruffly 9 hours of night/dark(gets dark around 9pm and sun comes up about 7:30 or 8am)....in the winter time 13 hours of dark(sun comes up at 6am and goes down at 5pm......if they'd leave it like it was before....we'd have one more hour of daylight to work outside.
 

Mrs.Greg

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Silver said:
We don't have daylight savings time maybe because there's no daylight to save :???: in the winter months. The difference between light at 9am and light at 10am just doesn't matter. As far as summer goes, it's only dark for 3 or 4 hrs anyway (if it's good and cloudy), so the whole idea is a waste of time.
'Sides, it's nice to confuse people outside our timezone with the concept of not changing our clocks. Especially Albertans (they seem to think the world revolves around them :wink: :lol: ). They always ask, "are you on Alberta time now?" and I reply, " We never change, so obviously you're on OUR time! (At least until spring, when Vancouver switches over to OUR time!") :lol: :lol:
You confused me on two things Silver. We don't think the world revolves around us we know it,its the rest of Canada that doesn't get it :p JJ. :lol: :lol:
Also are you saying only part of B.C is on daylight saving and your part isn't??
 

Silver

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Mrs.Greg said:
Silver said:
We don't have daylight savings time maybe because there's no daylight to save :???: in the winter months. The difference between light at 9am and light at 10am just doesn't matter. As far as summer goes, it's only dark for 3 or 4 hrs anyway (if it's good and cloudy), so the whole idea is a waste of time.
'Sides, it's nice to confuse people outside our timezone with the concept of not changing our clocks. Especially Albertans (they seem to think the world revolves around them :wink: :lol: ). They always ask, "are you on Alberta time now?" and I reply, " We never change, so obviously you're on OUR time! (At least until spring, when Vancouver switches over to OUR time!") :lol: :lol:
You confused me on two things Silver. We don't think the world revolves around us we know it,its the rest of Canada that doesn't get it :p JJ. :lol: :lol:
Also are you saying only part of B.C is on daylight saving and your part isn't??

The Peace River country doesn't change its clocks Mrs.Greg, but rest of the province does. There may be a couple other spots along the AB border that don't change as well though, I'm not sure.
 

Buckerette

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Just remembered that next year we get 4 more weeks of sunshine!!

"August 8, 2005 Update: President Bush signed into law the Energy Policy Act, which extends Daylight Saving Time (DST) by four weeks from the second Sunday of March to end on the first Sunday of November. Extended Daylight Saving Time will begin in March 2007."

Can't wait! I hate it getting dark at 5.

And I really don't understand why it has to be done before Halloween. You'd think it would be safer and a whole of a hell lot warmer if the little ones had more daylight to trick or treat.... (of course when I was a kid we were told we had to wait until dark to start...that probly wasn't a great decision on my parent's part :???: :???: )
 

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