Hi Everyone,
Please be reminded that Daylight Saving is activated this morning so all your clocks should skip one hour front.
But why the hassle? Why must we switch our time front and back an hour for? Especially, everyone is rushing for deadline and the Daylight Saving simply just push the deadline one hour earlier!
Well, firstly, I think many would think we are switching from Daylight Saving time to Standard time(At least I thought so). It is just the opposite, we are just switching to the Daylight Saving time. The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time (called "Summer Time" in 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. Another advantage of Daylight Saving is that it save energy. Well? Of course it did, imagine one more hour of sunlight into the evening means you will be switching on your light one hour later. And usually people wake up with the sun already at work (at least I do).
And indeed it has its shortcomings. There are evidence that the severity of auto accidents increases and work productivity decreases as people adjust to the time change.
The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin from his essay "An Economical Project." I will not go through the history as it is rather boring. But people that are interested you can go here.
Lastly, some information about tuning your clock. In spring, clocks spring forward from 12:59 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. and in fall, clocks fall back from 1:59 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. Daylight Saving will begin on the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October. The date is recently amended by our all-time favourite President George W. Bush, who signed his name on an Energy Policy Act. In short, please change your time and the next time we gonna switch back will be on 28th October 2007. In the meantime..
Enjoy the Sunlight
Zhiwei
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