DU Public Service Announcement: FALL BACK!

[Hissyspit]

Daylight Savings Time ends this morning, so don't forget to set your clocks back.

[FLyellowdog]

1. I just reset all my clocks...thanks.

[Pirate Smile]

2. I had forgotten. You are truly a PSA tonight.

:)

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Great idea to post this...

[arcadian]

4. Get my ho ready?

Why? Will the time change create some sort of billing problems?

[Hissyspit]

6. Here's what they mean:

From wikipedia.org: World War I changed the political equation, as DST was promoted as a way to alleviate hardships from wartime coal shortages and air raid blackouts. After Germany led the way, the United Kingdom first used DST on May 21, 1916.<75> U.S. retailing and manufacturing interests led by Pittsburgh industrialist Robert Garland soon began lobbying for DST, but were opposed by railroads. The U.S.'s 1917 entry to the war overcame objections, and DST was established in 1918.<76>

The war's end swung the pendulum back. Farmers continued to dislike DST, and many countries repealed it after the war. Britain was an exception: it retained DST nationwide but over the years adjusted transition dates for several reasons, including special rules during the 1920s and 1930s to avoid clock shifts on Easter mornings.<77> The U.S. was more typical: Congress repealed DST after 1919. President Woodrow Wilson, like Willett an avid golfer, vetoed the repeal twice but his second veto was overridden,<78> and only a few U.S. cities retained DST locally thereafter.<79>

Wilson's successor Warren G. Harding opposed DST as a "deception". Reasoning that people should instead get up and go to work earlier in the summer, he ordered District of Columbia federal employees to start work at 08:00 rather than 09:00 during summer 1922. Many businesses followed suit though many others did not; the experiment was not repeated.<80>

Since Willett's day the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals of DST, with similar politics involved.<81> The history of time in the United States includes DST during both world wars, but no standardization of peacetime DST until 1966.<82>


Poster titled "VICTORY! CONGRESS PASSES DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL" showing Uncle Sam turning a clock to daylight saving time as a clock-headed figure throws his hat in the air. The clock face of the figure reads "ONE HOUR OF EXTRA DAYLIGHT". The bottom caption says "Get Your Hoe Ready!" The original artist's monogram has not been identified. The original color lithograph is 95 cm × 53 cm. The Library of Congress archival photograph was cropped to include only the poster's contents, and the image was repaired to fix the damage in the original.

[DRoseDARs]

11. Way to miss the joke, Hissy.

Wrong type of "ho"... :rofl:

[proud patriot]

5. FYI there may be a hiccup on DU during the time change

:hi:

[shadowknows69]

7. Testing 1 2 3 4

[Winnipegosis]

8. In Canada too.

It's the best thing Bush did.

[orleans]

10. please--don't give him too much credit

he deserves none

(welcome to du)

:-) }( :hi:

[Chichiri]

9. I, too, had forgotten. Thanks!