It feels like Mother Nature just gave me a hundred bucks.

[khryslerkid]

 

[Richard Cranium]

Thanks for getting that song stuck in my head! It took 20 years to get rid of it the last time.

My pleasure!

 

[Budnicks]

A bit of New Zealand history....my Grandfather used to tell that the Gubbermint buggered things up before WW2.

From Wiki....
6 Nov 1927 - Daylight Saving Time Started
When local standard time was about to reach
Sunday, 6 November 1927, 2:00:00 a.m. clocks were turned forward 1 hour to
Sunday, 6 November 1927, 3:00:00 a.m. local daylight time instead.

Sunrise and sunset were about 1 hour later on 6 Nov 1927 than the day before. There was more light in the evening.

Daylight Saving Time History in New Zealand

• New Zealand first observed Daylight Saving Time in 1927.
• New Zealand has observed DST for 67 years between 1927 and 2020 (DST in at least one location).
• Previous time with no Daylight Saving Time was 1973

The Inventors of DST
New Zealand was the home of one of the pioneers of DST, but the seasonal change was not adopted in the country before 1927.

The history of DST in New Zealand started more than 20 years earlier. In 1895, the scientist George Vernon Hudson presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society advocating seasonal time adjustments. The society members ridiculed his idea. However, in 1909, the parliamentarian Thomas Sidey proposed to move the clocks 1 hour forward in New Zealand’s summer period to allow for an extra hour of daylight in the evenings.

Confusing Changes
The Summer Time Act 1927, set the clocks forward 1 hour, but the measure was unpopular. The Summer Time Act 1928 reduced the time change to 30-minutes instead. After the Summer Time Act 1929 went into effect, the DST period lasted from the 2nd Sunday in October to the 3rd Sunday in March. In 1933, it was extended to run from the 1st Sunday in September to the last Sunday of April.

In 1941, during World War II, clocks were set forward 30 minutes, increasing New Zealand's offset from GMT to 12 hours. The time change was made permanent by the Standard Time Act 1945.

Modern DST in New Zealand
New Zealand's current DST schedule was established by the Time Act 1974. The measure proved so popular that the start and end dates of the DST period were extended several times. Following the Daylight Time Order 1990, DST ran from the 1st Sunday in October to the 3rd Sunday in March.

In 2007, New Zealand’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Rick Barker, announced that the DST schedule was to be extended further. The decision was made after a survey and petition found that people favored an extended DST period. DST in New Zealand is today observed from the last Sunday in September to the 1st Sunday in April.

USA started in 1918 and still used in 2020

Damn we can't blame Tricky Dick for that now...

 

[Budnicks]

I'd prefer to go on what we have now & just leave it...

Beautiful sunny days, we're in a false spring, warm weather
70* days & cool nights & now later (on the clock) for the sun to set
not shoveling snow, no salted roads or freezing our asses off
or dealing with hurricanes or tornadoes (very rarely, thank goodness),
knock on wood, hope an earthquake doesn't strike the coastal regions
(make SF & Oakland fall off into the ocean )
a little rain shower here & there, trees are starting to fill out
rivers are flowing, birds are chirping, turkeys & deer everywhere
all wins in my book

great time of year here

 

[Cranky]

Thanks for getting that song stuck in my head! It took 20 years to get rid of it the last time.

Glad I read this post before checking that vid out! lol

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Devo Junky was a nickname given to me from a guy I hired on with at the refinery. I go by my initials of my first and middle name and he immediately started with that after asking me what DJ stood for. It stuck for a good many years until he took a buy out and after he was gone, the nickname slowly died......which was ok with me lol.

 

[mopar 3 B]

Their standard time IS daylight saving time!

You had better look that one up. Arizona does not use daylight savings time unless you are sitting on the Navajo Nation.

 

[33 IMP]

You had better look that one up. Arizona does not use daylight savings time unless you are sitting on the Navajo Nation.

It doesn't matter what you or I call it, it is still effectively daylight saving time.
Okay, here in california, it's 8pm as I type this, and we are on daylight saving time. Across the river, 500 feet away, it's also 8pm in Arizona. So what is their time? You say it's standard,ok. Six months from now, California will go OFF ds time, and the clock will "fall back" and this will be 7pm. 500 feet across the river it will STILL be 8pm. So if I'm in Needles california and it's standard time, and I drive two miles into Arizona and it's an hour later, what kind of time is it? If you move "noon" closer to sun-up than it is to sundown, so you have more light in the afternoon, that's daylight saving time, whether you call it standard time, bazooka time or gesundheit time or something else.
Edit: I own a house in arizona, five miles from california, and five miles from nevada, and a house in california. I KNOW what time it is.

 

[mopar 3 B]

It doesn't matter what you or I call it, it is still effectively daylight saving time.
Okay, here in california, it's 8pm as I type this, and we are on daylight saving time. Across the river, 500 feet away, it's also 8pm in Arizona. So what is their time? You say it's standard,ok. Six months from now, California will go OFF ds time, and the clock will "fall back" and this will be 7pm. 500 feet across the river it will STILL be 8pm. So if I'm in Needles california and it's standard time, and I drive two miles into Arizona and it's an hour later, what kind of time is it? If you move "noon" closer to sun-up than it is to sundown, so you have more light in the afternoon, that's daylight saving time, whether you call it standard time, bazooka time or gesundheit time or something else.
Edit: I own a house in arizona, five miles from california, and five miles from nevada, and a house in california. I KNOW what time it is.

Well I sit in the central zone and my son in Phoenix lives in the mountain zone all winter long we are 1 hour different as should be. If Arizona was on day light savings time year around that half of year we would both be on the same time and not be a hour later. Right now am two hours ahead with day light savings time. And by the way there is only one hour difference in the two time zones. Not sure what your smoking.