Guest guest Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 Arizona doesn't recognize Daylight Saving Time, thank goodness. One of the few intelligent things the state does do!! We adjust our time by the heat and the work we have to do in it. Noland ----- Original Message ----- From: " jchrissullivan " <chris_sullivan@...> <low dose naltrexone > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 6:40 AM Subject: [low dose naltrexone] DST and MS > Daylight saving time > >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. > > http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time > > Daylight saving time (also called DST, or Summer Time) is the local > time a country adopts for a portion of the year, usually an hour > forward from its standard official time. > > It is a system intended to " save " daylight (as opposed to wasting it > by sleeping, say, while the sun shines). The official time is > adjusted forward during the spring and summer months, so that the > active hours of work and school will better match the hours of > daylight. > > It is sometimes asserted that DST was first proposed by > lin in a letter to the editors of the Journal of Paris. However, > the article was humourous and, in any case, lin was not > proposing DST, but rather that people should get up and go to bed > earlier. > > It was first seriously proposed by Willett in the " Waste of > Daylight " , published in 1907, but he was unable to get the British > Government to adopt it despite considerable lobbying. The idea was > first put into practice by the German government during the First > World War between the 30th of April, 1916 and the 1st of October, > 1916. Shortly afterwards, the United Kingdom followed suit, first > adopting DST between the 21st of May, 1916 and the 1st of October, > 1916. Then on March 19, 1918 the United States Congress established > several time zones (which were already in use by railroads since > 1883) and made daylight saving time official (which went into effect > on March 31) for the remainder of World War I. It was observed for > seven months in 1918 and 1919. The law, however, proved so unpopular > (mostly because people rose earlier and went to bed earlier than in > modern times) that the law was later repealed. > > Daylight saving time was reinstated in the United States on February > 9, 1942, again as a wartime measure to conserve resources, this time > in order to fight World War II. This remained in effect until the war > began winding down and the requirement was removed on September 30, > 1945. From 1945 to 1966, there was no federal law about daylight > saving time. States and localities were free to observe daylight > saving time or not. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 created daylight > saving time to begin on the last Sunday of April and to end on the > last Sunday of October. Any area that wanted to be exempt from > daylight saving time could do so by passing a local ordinance. The > law was amended in 1986 to begin daylight saving time on the first > Sunday in April. > > DST is not universally accepted; many localities do not observe it. > Nevertheless, proponents claim that DST helps more than it hurts. The > primary claim is that it reduces energy consumption. Opponents claim > that there's not enough benefit to justify needing to adjust clocks > twice per year. The disruption in sleep patterns associated with > setting clocks forward, and thereby " losing " an hour, correlates with > a spike in the number of severe auto accidents. > > DST is particularly unpopular among people working in agriculture > because the animals do not observe it, and thus the people are placed > out of synchronization with the rest of the community, including > school times, broadcast schedules, and the like. > > DST is a long-standing controversy in Indiana, not only as an > agricultural state, but also because the meridian separating the > eastern and central time zones divides the state. In the past, > neighboring communities sometimes ended up one or even two hours > apart. In the current compromise, the state has three kinds of time > zone: 77 counties, most of the state, are on Eastern Standard Time > but do not use DST; 7 counties near Chicago and 3 counties in the > southwestern corner of the state are on Central Standard Time and do > use DST; and 2 counties near Cincinnati, Ohio and 3 counties near > Louisville, Kentucky are on Eastern Standard time but do use DST. > > For fairly obvious reasons, DST is a temperate zone practice: day > lengths in the tropics do not vary enough to justify DST. Hawaii, the > only U.S. state in the tropics, does not observe DST. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I wonder if there is any correspondence (temporal or geographical) > between incidence of MS (or attacks) and DST use? I think my friend > got CPMS in 1966, after a move from Windsor Ontario to Virginia (and > back). I wonder if that was one of those states that reinstituted > DST in 1966. > > I don't know when Canada changed its use of it. > > " The animals do not observe it " : do they get MS? " Day lengths in the > tropics do not vary enough to justify DST " : they also don't get MS. > > Maybe *that* is what the soldiers left behind in the Faroes. > > Too many coincidences. > > -Sullivan > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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