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Subject: Re: [FTM] Shirley will be out of town
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 00:43:21 +0000


At some point after WWII, the U.S. discontinued daylight savings time. I do not remember when it was started again, but I do remember that in 1973 President Nixon had us change to daylight savings time earlier than usual as a way of saving energy.

That year, on the first day of DST, as I backed out of my garage at a time when is was usually light, my then 2-year-old son said, "Look what it did. Why did it do that?" Try explaining that to a 2-year-old. The next morning, as we again backed out of the garage, he said, "It did it again."

Margaret

-------------- Original message from Shirley <>: --------------


> In the USA, on the first Sunday of each April we go on Daily Savings
> Time (DST). We turn the clocks forward one hour. The end of October,
> we turn them back one hour. I believe it started during WWII to give
> more daylight during working (daytime) hours. And no one can get our
> legislators to go back to regular time of not switching it.
>
> shirley
>
> John Donaldson wrote:
>
> > What do you mean put them forward one hour?
> >
> > We put ours BACK 1 hour last weekend
> >
> > Shirley accuracy please, this is an international list :-)
> >
>
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