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09-24-2004, 12:14 PM
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daylight saving time
im to lazy to search this on google........
why do we lose/gian an hour? i dont understand the whole thing. anyone up for explaining it?
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09-24-2004, 12:40 PM
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yeah, they are trying to confuse all of us man. it's a consipracy
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09-24-2004, 12:57 PM
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it was for farming originally...to gain that extra hour of work/daylight.
Pretty stupid now though |
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09-24-2004, 02:42 PM
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Re: daylight saving time
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We change them the last Sunday in October at 2 a.m.. I personally think it's a ploy to make us all confused and tired. You know...like leap year. But leap year actually has a purpose since the year is really only 364 1/4 days long so ya gotta have that extra day every 4 years.
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09-24-2004, 06:48 PM
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i think its to try and compensate for the sun rising and setting at different times of the day to kinda balance out sinrise and sunset. some places dont do it anymore though.
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09-25-2004, 07:51 AM
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^i think we should to.
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09-25-2004, 09:39 AM
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the mountain time zone doesnt have it
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09-25-2004, 11:32 AM
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in the fall the clocks go back an hour, and in spring, jump ahead an hour
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09-25-2004, 12:34 PM
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fall back
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