[Mari]

Greetings,
Does anyone one know of ANY good reason on this earth that we need to change the clocks back?
I think that most of us benefit from the sun in the evening.




Oh. One good thing. We gain an extra hour of sleep Saturday night. The world is good.

This is a good reason. Now I am glad I posted.

Mari

[Nathan1097]

Well, that's the normal time. The change in the spring/summer is so we have extra light to play in the warm weather.

[Nikko]

I hated it when I lived back North East. I now live in a State that don't change the clocks.

I found my depression got bad when we lost sunlight, then I was told I had SAD. I used to go to tanning places to get that good feeling of warmth and light.

The Holidays are coming which should take everyones mind off the change of clocks. I always thought that Jan and Feb were the worst months back East.
So cold and nothing going on. I couldn't wait for the Spring, which was rainy, but I knew it would get better, then I would come alive.

Personally, I dread the Holidays this year, it's happened many times before in my life too. I guess it's my situation, plus living so far away from my friends and all. God only knows how I will get through them. I did the big S once between Xmas and New Years.

Right now I wish I was back East. I'm just so screwed up, trying to start my life over.

Nikko

[Bdix]

Ohmygawd honey, i just read back and caught up what was going on with you. I'm glad to hear your mom is doing so well - and am also glad that you are so much stronger then you realise and found the strength to get him out and press charges on him.

I am going to be in Flagstaff in January for a conference! We should do lunch!! Its good to see you posting! I missed you!

As for the clocks - I think its an evil trick by the government to keep us half cocked and unaware LOL! I DISPISE daylight savings. It throws me for a loop for about a month.

The extra hour of sleep IS nice though........:P

[Nikko]

Thanks - I am doing my best, I sure have my ups and downs though since this happened in July.

This too shall pass................it really has to. Court is Friday again, but this should be it to determine what happens to him. So many pre-trials it's nuts.

The end? I hope, Closure no not really, but I have to live with that.

PM me about lunch and regular email.

Hugs, Nikko

[Bdix]

Hi Mari - came across this article this morning about Daylight Savings. Thought you might be interested.

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_....html?GT1=8618

Daylight Saving
Encyclopedia Article

Daylight Saving, system of setting clocks ahead so that both sunrise and sunset occur at a later hour, producing an additional period of daylight in the evening. In the North Temperate Zone clocks are usually set ahead one hour in the spring and set back to standard time in the fall. The correct adjustment is easily remembered via the mantra “spring forward, fall back.” Until the year 2007, daylight-saving time begins at 2 am on the first Sunday of April and ends at 2 am on the last Sunday of October in most of the United States and Canada. Daylight saving is not observed in Hawaii, Arizona, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Saskatchewan. Beginning in 2007, daylight-saving time will start on the second Sunday of March and will end on the first Sunday of November. Intended to promote energy conservation by starting daylight saving three weeks earlier and ending it one week later, the change was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

The idea of daylight saving was mentioned in a whimsical essay in 1784 by Benjamin Franklin; it was first advocated seriously by a British builder, William Willett, in the pamphlet Waste of Daylight (1907). Daylight saving has been used in the United States and in many European countries since World War I, when the system was adopted in order to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power. Some localities reverted to standard time after the war, but others retained daylight saving. During World War II the U.S. Congress passed a law putting the entire country on “war time,” which set clocks one hour ahead of standard time for the duration of the war. War time was also followed in Britain, where clocks were put ahead still another hour during the summer.

In the United States during peacetime, daylight saving was a subject of controversy. Farmers, who usually work schedules determined by sun time and are therefore inconvenienced when they must conduct business on a different time basis, registered strong opposition. Railroad, bus, and plane scheduling was hampered by time inconsistencies among various cities and states. The Uniform Time Act, enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1966, established a system of uniform (within each time zone) daylight-saving time throughout the United States and its possessions, exempting only those states in which the state legislature voted to keep the entire state on standard time.

[Mari]

Dear Bobi,
Thanks.
I wish that we could stay on Day Light Saving and keep the hour at night. I don't like coming home in the dark.

Every time the clocks shift I feel like some kind of cosmic shift is happening. It doesn't help that the fall time changes happens when the cool weather starts (this wekend for us -- we had hot weather all fall) and the breezes pick up. It seems like the clocks effect the weather or something.

I remember telling my old pdoc (loved him most of the time) that I had felt unsettled because of the time change a few days earlier. He looked at me like I was weird.

Mari

[bizi]

I agree with you Mari....
As soon as those hot days leave and we start having cooler temperatures I start to get down cause I know that the winter is coming.
even in louisiana it gets frigging cold here...no snow so that is a blessing but It still gets cold.
I have raynalds, a circulation condition in my fingers and toes and don't tolerate the chnges in temperature....just gripping too hard on the steering wheel can turn my fingers white.
anyway...I am already looking forward to spring...
is that weird?
bizi

[Mari]

Hi,
Spring is great. Summer is great too!
Mari

[Curious]

you change you clock? you mean they aren't all still blinking? like on your vcr?



no wonder i'm either early or late..never know that it's time to sleep...