Don’t forget to set your clocks forward one hour before going to bed tonight. According to the Commerce Department (Hi Gina) the change to daylight saving time will occur at 2am, Sunday morning. This is usually where we write about efforts to abolish the biannual time changes, but the arguments are the same as last …
It’s that time of year again: time to return to standard time; time for early sunsets; time for changing into “lounge wear” at 5pm; and time for our perennial discussion of eliminating daylight saving time altogether. Or, as a Senate bill passed last March would have it, making it permanent. According to the WashPo: A …
Don’t forget to set your clocks forward one hour before going to bed tonight. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), daylight saving time begins Sunday, March 13th at 2am. So, do we still need daylight saving time? Does yanking our schedule back and forth twice a year serve any practical purpose? …
Don’t forget to set your clocks forward one hour tonight, and if Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has his way, this will be the our final ‘spring forward.’ He is one of a group of senators who have submitted a bill called the Sunshine Protection Act.* From a report on WPRI: According to Whitehouse, some of the …
Set your clocks back one hour tonight before going to bed . . . just what we needed, one more hour of anxiety. This year, Halloween will feature the second full moon of the month, also known as the Hunter’s Moon. According to NASA: Since the harvesters had reaped the fields, hunters could easily see …
(3.8) Spring forward — daylight saving time begins at 2am, Sunday, March 8. Seen here is an old clock face at the Ladd Observatory. You can still watch individual seconds pass by at the no-frills U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock. The worm is turning: The Ladd Observatory is open to the public on Tuesday evenings, …
Spring forward. Daylight saving time begins early Sunday morning at 2am. Sunset time on Sunday will be 6:46pm. Yay. The U. S. Naval Observatory Master Clock is the most accurate timepiece in the world. (This is not that clock.) In the case of GPS, the Master Clock helps carefully measure the travel time of electromagnetic …
Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends at 2am Sunday, November 4. Fun fact: Daylight saving time and time zones are regulated by the Department of Transportation, not by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Daylight saving time, or DST, is the period of the year when clocks are moved one hour ahead. In the …
“Time makes us all a prisoner of the present, forever transitioning from our own past into an unknown future.” That not-at-all comforting sentiment comes to us from astrophysicist — and towering voice of reason in these irrational times — Neil deGrasse Tyson. Many of us feel like “prisoners of the present” these days. But life …
Extra sleep. Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday, November 6, at 2am. The government says so. More importantly, the government says ‘saving.’ No ess on the end. From the DST FAQ page we learn this: Arizona does not observe DST, but the Navajo Indian territories do observe DST. Sticking it to the man! And ‘ess’ is …
According to the NIST daylight saving time begins at 2am, Sunday, March 8th. Arizona’s still being a dick about it. DST was formally introduced in the United States in 1918. Today, most of the country and its territories observe DST. However, DST is not observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands …
Daylight saving time ends Sunday at 2am. Fun fact: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted year-round DST in the United States, called “War Time” during World War II from February 9, 1942 to September 30, 1945. The change was implemented 40 days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and during this time, the U.S. time …
Set your clocks ahead one hour at 2am Sunday morning. Go to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the exact time, and for more information about the history of time check out ‘Time Exhibits’. Daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin as a way to make better use of daylight and …