Clocks go back tonight….
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Clocks go forward tonight, not back…
The Brad
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Even though polls show most people dislike the system that has most Americans changing clocks twice a year, the political moves necessary to change the system haven’t succeeded because opinions on the issue and its potential impacts are sharply divided.
Want to make daylight saving time permanent? That would mean the sun rises around 9 a.m. in Detroit for a while during the winter. Prefer staying on standard time year round? That would mean the sun would be up at 4:11 a.m. in Seattle in June.
“There’s no law we can pass to move the sun to our will,” said Jay Pea, the president of Save Standard Time, an organization devoted to switching to standard time for good.
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The United States has tinkered with the clock intermittently since railroads standardized the time zones in 1883. So has a lot of the world. About 140 countries have had daylight saving time at some point; about half that many do now.
About 1 in 10 U.S. adults favor the current system of changing the clocks, according to an AP-NORC poll conducted last year. About half oppose that system, and some 4 in 10 didn’t have an opinion. If they had to choose, most Americans say they would prefer to make daylight saving time permanent, rather than standard time.
Thailand is a tall, narrow country close to the equator, so no need to change the time. Pretty much 6 am - 6 pm sunlight year around. Taiwan doesn't change either.
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Clocks go forward tonight, not back…
@LuFins-Dad said in Clocks go back tonight….:
Clocks go forward tonight, not back…
Back to Eastern Daylight Time???
Anyway never let accuracy get in the way of a good meme.
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Israel changes twice a year. I don’t mind.
