Please help me to understand daylight saving time.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 7:09 p.m. - Subject: Please help me to understand daylight saving time. |
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I don’t understand How we get an extra hour of sleep when we set the clock back an hour. Say for instance I go to sleep at 12 A.M. and wake up at 6 A.M. That’s six hours of sleep. Alright now say I set the clock back and go to bed at 12 A.M.(1 A.M. Before daylight savings.) and wake up at 6 A.M. Count the hours in between that and it goes 1 2 3 4 5 6, 6 Hours. Si isn’t it the same amount of sleep?
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 7:14 p.m. - Subject: |
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You supposed to set the clock back at two in the morning, so it would be
12-1
1-2
1-2
2-3
3-4
4-5
5-6.
Thats how you got 7 hours.
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'of the Universe'
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 7:15 p.m. - Subject: |
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Si Senor! However, if you normally go to work/school at say, 8am, after daylight savings you actually go to work/school at 9am (in the fall). That’s your extra hour. Blame Thomas Edison and his evil desire to save energy (damn hippy freak).
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 7:15 p.m. - Subject: |
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The whole thing is pointless.
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 7:16 p.m. - Subject: |
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Damn you DamnBastard you beat me to it.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 7:22 p.m. - Subject: |
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Alright... This has always confused me :/ I will probably forget the next time it comes around. So if we sleep the same time and wake up the same time we still get one more hour of actual sleep?
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 7:24 p.m. - Subject: |
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Also, Is the extra hour of sleep only for one day?
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 7:28 p.m. - Subject: |
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Yes, its only for one day.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 7:34 p.m. - Subject: |
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because after that one day, your body’s sleep schedule goes back to normal [if go to bed and wake up at the same time]
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 7:38 p.m. - Subject: |
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Quote: because after that one day, your body’s sleep schedule goes back to normal [if go to bed and wake up at the same time]
No, because you don’t change the clocks anymore.
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 8:36 p.m. - Subject: |
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it was originally set up to add an extra work hour during world war 2 so that the factories could stay open and they have just never did away with it
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 8:43 p.m. - Subject: |
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Quote: it was originally set up to add an extra work hour during world war 2 so that the factories could stay open and they have just never did away with it
RE-setup.
Ben Franklin set it up first to conserve candles ’n shit in the winter and cause bitches like to sleep in in the winter.
I dont know why/when/how they stopped it after that.
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2007 8:45 p.m. - Subject: |
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After Ben Franklin, it was used in WWI. Then stopped in 1918.
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