<font color="red"> Daylight Saving Time begins April 3 !!! </font> :cool:

Which can mean only one thing...

The Discs Unlimited Open is Sunday April 3, 2005 in Herington, Kansas. Yipee!

Its about time. Seriously...who's idea was it to set it up so 50% of the year getting out of work at 5:00 means it's dark or dusk?

Well it was worse than that before adopted back in like the '50's...just thank Mr. Ben Franklin who had the idea. I'm sure he'd be a big disc golfer if around now!

I'm with you though...I'd rather work my first few hours when it's dark out so I can spend a few hours a day doing something else when it's light out, even if it's not spent golfing.

<font color="red"> Daylight Saving Time begins April 3 !!! </font> :cool:



Just in time for the Semi's and Finals of the PDGA Match Play Championships.. :D

it can not come soon enough!!! :confused:

Hate it. Messes with my 'internal clock' for two weeks, twice a year. Arizona has the right idea!

it can not come soon enough!!! :confused:



think if we lived in the north, e. poor yankees. :p

it can not come soon enough!!! :confused:



think if we lived in the north, e. poor yankees. :p



not at all an option!!! :D:D:D

the beginning of DST should be a national holiday (outside of AZ of course). i traditionally cook out and take a few days of that week off.

34 days till thursday night triples.... BOOM!

What's this Daylight Saving Time you speak of? I don't understand.

Trivia: Part of Indiana doesn't observe DST either, and I just found a web site that says Hawaii doesn't either (I didn't know that).

Some Indian reservations within Az do observe DST, but some don't. You can actually drive in a more-or-less straight line and change time zones four times without ever leaving thes state: from White land on MST to Navaho MDT to Hopi MST back to Navaho MDT back to White MST.

i vote no more daylight savings time!!!

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United States / European Union

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Year DST Begins
at 2 a.m. DST Ends
at 2 a.m. Summertime
period begins
at 1 a.m. UT Summertime
period ends
at 1 a.m. UT
2001 April 1 October 28 March 25 October 28
2002 April 7 October 27 March 31 October 27
2003 April 6 October 26 March 30 October 26
2004 April 4 October 31 March 28 October 31
2005 April 3 October 30 March 27 October 30
2006 April 2 October 29 March 26 October 29
2007 April 1 October 28 March 25 October 28
2008 April 6 October 26 March 30 October 26
2009 April 5 October 25 March 29 October 25
April October March October

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Note: US calculator valid 1976-2099; EU 1996-2099.

Ban DST!!! Let the lights burn!!!

Rationale & original idea
The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time (called "Summer Time" many places in the world) is to make better use of daylight. We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. Countries have different change dates.


If you live near the equator, day and night are nearly the same length (12 hours). But elsewhere on Earth, there is much more daylight in the Summer than in the Winter. The closer you live to the North or South pole, the longer the summers. Thus, Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) is not helpful in the tropics, and countries near the equator do not usually change their clocks.

A poll done by the U.S. Department of Transportation indicated that Americans liked Daylight Saving Time because "there is more light in the evenings / can do more in the evenings." A 1976 survey of 2.7 million citizens in New South Wales found 68% liked daylight saving.

Daylight Saving Time also saves energy. Studies done by the U.S. Department of Transportation show that Daylight Saving Time trims the entire country's electricity usage by a significant, but small amount, of less than one percent each day with Daylight Saving Time. We save energy in both the evening and the morning because we use less electricity for lighting and appliances. Similarly, In New Zealand, power companies have found that power usage decreases 3.5% when daylight saving starts. In the first week, peak evening consumption commonly drops around 5%.

Energy use and the demand for electricity for lighting our homes is directly connected to when we go to bed and when we get up. Bedtime for most of us is late evening through the year. When we go to bed, we turn off the lights and TV. In the average home, 25 percent of all the electricity we use is for lighting and small appliances, such as TVs, VCRs and stereos. A good percentage of energy consumed by lighting and appliances occurs in the evening when families are home. By moving the clock ahead one hour, we can cut the amount of electricity we consume each day.


In the summer, people who rise before the sun rises are using more energy in the morning than if DST was not in effect. However, although 70% of Americans rise before 7 am, this waste of energy from having less sunlight in the morning is more than offset by the savings of energy that results from more sunlight in the evening.

In the winter, the afternoon Daylight Saving Time advantage is offset by the morning's need for more lighting. In spring and fall, the advantage is less than one hour. So, Daylight Saving Time saves energy for lighting in all seasons of the year except for the four darkest months of winter (November, December, January and February) when the afternoon advantage is offset by the need for lighting because of late sunrise.

Daylight Saving Time "makes" the sun "set" one hour later and therefore reduces the period between sunset and bedtime by one hour. This means that less electricity would be used for lighting and appliances late in the day.

We also use less electricity because we are home fewer hours during the "longer" days of spring and summer. Most people plan outdoor activities in the extra daylight hours. When we are not at home, we don't turn on the appliances and lights.

There is a small public health benefit to Daylight Saving time. Several studies in the U.S. and Britain have found that daylight, almost certainly because of improved visibility, substantially decreases (by four times) the likelihood of pedestrians being killed on the roads. Even if it is beneficial overall, Daylight Saving Time shifts this danger from the evening to the morning.

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html

Trivia: Part of Indiana doesn't observe DST either, and I just found a web site that says Hawaii doesn't either (I didn't know that).



Actually, much of Indiana does not observe DST, for now. Our new governor has made it one of his goals to move IN to DST. Fortunately, the IN legislature did not agree and it was not passed this time around.

I knew that AZ did not observe it either, but I was not aware of Hawaii.

When you live in one of those states that does not change clocks, you find all this stuff out. I sure did enjoy living in AZ and not changing all the clocks everywhere in the house!! That part of AZ that does observe DST is the Indian Reservation in the northeast part of the state. I enjoy DST for the simple fact that it gives working stiffs more time to play golf during the workweek, but I sure do hate changing the clocks, fax machines, microwave, oven, answering machine, thermostats (2), watches, car radios, VCR, TVs, etc.