Did You Remember?
Oct 29th, 2006 at 10:24 am by Susie
To turn your clock back? Next year just won’t be the same:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This Halloween will be the last time most U.S. kids yell “trick-or-treat” in the dark, as next year’s extension of daylight saving time promises to shed more light on traditional candy-gathering activities.
This year clocks will be turned back one hour on Sunday, October 29, bringing a close to daylight saving time and an earlier nightfall just before Halloween, which comes October 31.
However, the U.S. Congress tucked a provision into last year’s massive energy bill that will tack four extra weeks onto daylight saving time in a bid to save energy.
Under the new law, clocks will be moved forward an hour to begin daylight saving time next year on the second Sunday in March, instead of the first Sunday in April. It will end on the first Sunday in November, not the last Sunday in October.
That means that instead of the sun setting around 5:30 p.m. in most U.S. locations on Halloween, the sun will still be above the horizon next year when many kids start knocking on neighbors’ doors asking for candy.
This’ll create some problems with all those electronic devices that “know” about daylight savings time. I bet it’ll be more disruptive than Y2K.
Not being a fan of the dark autumn morning, I don’t like this.
We don’t do daylight savings time here in the Islands, so we’ll still have sunset around 6:00 PM.
If standard time was good enough for the Baby Jesus, it’s good enough for me.
Amen.
As a night person, I’d like to see year around DST
in two-hour doses.