Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Daylight Saving Time
This weekend brings around one of the most confusing times of the year for me: Daylight Saving Time. My body is mostly on Standard Time, so I don't function well in the mornings until the time changes back (and I get my extra hour's sleep again!) in October. I researched Daylight Saving Time on the internet, and found this most informative website: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/. It has the entire history and purposes of Daylight Saving Time on the site. Traditionally, times always change on the first weekend in April and the last weekend in October. Something I did not realize is that George W. Bush has managed to screw this up too.
How many people know that on August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005? This Act will changed U.S. time change dates for Daylight Saving Time beginning in 2007. The U.S. will be on an even wackier schedule at that time, with Daylight Saving Time beginning on the second Sunday of March and ending the first Sunday of November. Congress has a right to revert the Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 traditional Daylight Saving Time after the Department of Energy has had time to study the effects of this change.
So, it sounds like more of the same lingo we've been getting from GW lately. Does this mean that it will also be up to a "future President" to change our time back to the right time AND bring back our soldiers from Iraq?
How many people know that on August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005? This Act will changed U.S. time change dates for Daylight Saving Time beginning in 2007. The U.S. will be on an even wackier schedule at that time, with Daylight Saving Time beginning on the second Sunday of March and ending the first Sunday of November. Congress has a right to revert the Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 traditional Daylight Saving Time after the Department of Energy has had time to study the effects of this change.
So, it sounds like more of the same lingo we've been getting from GW lately. Does this mean that it will also be up to a "future President" to change our time back to the right time AND bring back our soldiers from Iraq?
