Just heads up in 2007 the new daylight savings time dates(in us at least) change daylight savings time will start
on march 11 this year instead of month later. It will last a week longer until nov 4 this year.
Reason I bring this up is any march and early april races(ralphs,ironman arizona not sure does phoenix even do dst?)
will be affected because sunrise will be an hour later than previous.
I checked ironman florida nov 3 sunrise is 5:58 am well with dst it will be 6:58 (pros start early age groupers at 7:00).
If it sticks means you can go 11 and finish before sunset.
will be bit of trouble for computers as well… We are going through the steps to make sure our servers zoneinfo tables
are adjusted and all of our systems will adjust on the correct dates since the current tables have been around for a while so just something to think about and hopefully race directors are aware of the changes as well…
Yeah, I think the legislation was passed a couple of years ago to change the dates, but they couldn’t make it work until 2007. I like it. More daylight for fun stuff. It will be nice at IMFL, although it would be really nice if it were a day later and we got an extra hour of sleep the night before the race.
I remember one year when I was a kid, maybe 1976, they had Daylight Savings Time through the entire year. It got a bit dangerous because kids (like me) were going to the bus stop in the morning in the dark in the winter, so the next year they scrapped that idea.
Isn’t daylight savings what we have in the summer months? I thought standard time was we have in the winter. If that is true then what we actually want is daylight savings time. In the end I am for what ever gives us the most daylight at the end of the day.
It is a pain especially if you’ve ever installed servers all around the world and us and had to set them up for timezones.
Up until this year indianapolis didn’t do dst but they will next year, hawaii doesn’t do it mountain zone doesn’t I think.
It’s a pain then different in europe,asia etc…
History first idea was ben franklin’s.
Go to link to read more.
Would be no reason if we could just get our jobs and school’s and business’s to just change their operating hours.
But that won’t happen so it’s sort of pushed on us… There are some pros and cons.
It does save energy(which is why in 70’s it was changed year round but later kids were going to school in the dark in the morning so they went back to part of the year) Guess you can’t change the school times because they need to be so traffic is lighter and parents can drop kids off and then go to work.
Myself I like the idea(even though my work hours are pretty flexible) like that extra daylight to train and gives traffic bit time to clear up… If we didn’t have it and I just leave work early I’m in rush hour traffic while bikeing.
So whether you like it or not we got it.
hopefully to reduce the consumption of electricity
Except that now people will be home ‘earlier’ in the heat of the day, and will run their air conditioners more, canceling out, if not overwhelming any savings from not having lights on.
hopefully to reduce the consumption of electricity
Except that now people will be home ‘earlier’ in the heat of the day, and will run their air conditioners more, canceling out, if not overwhelming any savings from not having lights on.
Yeah, that’s why I put hopefully in there Although, how many people run AC in March and November?
I think it was initially started so farmers had extra (light) time to farm the fields.
Nope, that’s urban legend. It never had anything to do with farmers. In fact, most of them (especially those with livestock) hate it.
It was originally started (at least in the US) to conserve energy. It was first used during WWI in 1918 and 1919 and killed immediately after the war because it was unpopular. It was reinstated during WWII from 1942 - 1945. From 1945 until 1966 there was no federal law regarding daylight savings time and the practice was used inconsistently by various local governments until the 70’s. It became permanent US law during the energy crisis in 1973 when Nixon enacted the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act and has been tinkered with ever since.
Problem is that the government has screwed with it so much that it no longer really saves much energy. If you truly wanted to save energy you’d have to sync the daylight as well as possible with the typical 8-5 workday - which means that the beginning and end dates of DST would have some relationship to the solar equinox. That use to be the case, but isn’t anymore.
The change in 2007 to a longer DST duration was actually spearheaded by lobbyists for industries who stand to make money on longer evening daylight (the barbecue and outdoor sports industries, for example) and also the candy industry (the new DST will bring more daylight to Halloween).
Although, how many people run AC in March and November?