What time is it?

[Tony Starke]

The US has officially saved 427,624,897 candles this season due to daylight savings time. Congratulations to all of you who helped save the candles. Now we can spring forward knowing we all did our part in making the world a better place. 

[tmo]

We're still saving them candles till March 29...  Makes for lots of joy when timing remote meetings.  Normally the delta to the East Coast is 6h, but sometimes 7h, or perhaps 5h.

[N201MKTurbo]

Here in Arizona, we've never played those silly games. If we could export daylight in the summer time we would gladly do it. We don't need to save it, We have more that we can figure out what to do with.

[N201MKTurbo]

The current administration doesn't have any qualms about doing away with outdated traditions. Perhaps we could petition him to somehow end this silliness with some executive action.

Who is in charge of DST anyway? Is it legislation? A regulation? Who enforces it? IDK!

OK Google here I come...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Time_Act

It is managed by the Department of Transportation.

[EricJ]

15 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Time_Act

It is managed by the Department of Transportation.

Time zones and coordinated time keeping came largely from requirements for the rail system, also influenced by telegraph use.   So DoT management actually makes some sense, at least from a  legacy heritage perspective.

 

[mike_elliott]

24 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

The current administration doesn't have any qualms about doing away with outdated traditions. Perhaps we could petition him to somehow end this silliness with some executive action.

Who is in charge of DST anyway? Is it legislation? A regulation? Who enforces it? IDK!

OK Google here I come...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Time_Act

It is managed by the Department of Transportation.

Makes sense...DOT gets lobbied by the Drive in Theater industry so they dont have to wait until 10:30 at night to begin the show, solution, change everyone's clocks...I doubt there are many Drive in theaters left to complain if this went away like they did.

[N201MKTurbo]

4 minutes ago, EricJ said:

Time zones and coordinated time keeping came largely from requirements for the rail system, also influenced by telegraph use.   So DoT management actually makes some sense, at least from a  legacy heritage perspective.

 

From what I read that isn't quite true. What you are referring to is the Standard time act of 1918 that established time zones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time_in_the_United_States

DST has been used intermittently worldwide sense 1916.

[EricJ]

3 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

From what I read that isn't quite true. What you are referring to is the Standard time act of 1918 that established time zones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time_in_the_United_States

DST has been used intermittently worldwide sense 1916.

What I'm referring to is captured in the first line in that link that says time zones came from the rail systems, so DoT management of time coordination makes sense historically.

"The history of standard time in the United States began November 18, 1883, when United States and Canadian railroads instituted standard time in time zones."

Edited March 8, 2020 by EricJ

[Hank]

13 minutes ago, EricJ said:

What I'm referring to is captured in the first line in that link that says time zones came from the rail systems, so DoT management of time coordination makes sense historically.

"The history of standard time in the United States began November 18, 1883, when United States and Canadian railroads instituted standard time in time zones."

Yep, there were too many head-on trainwrecks as the lines moved west. Every town determined "noon" bynwhen the sun was directly overhead, and keeping up with different time at every town using hand-wound pocket watches wasn't too accurate. One set of tracks went westward, with few places between towns formtwo trains . . . .

[N201MKTurbo]

14 minutes ago, EricJ said:

What I'm referring to is captured in the first line in that link that says time zones came from the rail systems, so DoT management of time coordination makes sense historically.

"The history of standard time in the United States began November 18, 1883, when United States and Canadian railroads instituted standard time in time zones."

You are correct Eric. I thought you were referring to DST not time zones.

[carusoam]

Is there anyone left that makes use out daylight savings time?

My watch is connected to my phone... so the change is automatic...

It doesn’t even give a proper reminder when it happens... 

Best regards,

-a-

[Hank]

6 hours ago, carusoam said:

Is there anyone left that makes use out daylight savings time?

My watch is connected to my phone... so the change is automatic...

It doesn’t even give a proper reminder when it happens... 

Best regards,

-a-

You mean like this? Forgot to do it yesterday. 

Hey, coffee's ready!