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Good morning friends, almost Friday! Hope everyone has an awesome day

 

Morning, you all have a great day.

 

Hi all, I been feeling sluggish lately, even going to bed a little early to get more sleep. Think this sluggishness will pass when it warms up a bit more. Then I'll have more to keep me busy after work.

 

LOL

 

I'm on injured reserves.

 

Watched Kung Fu Panda 3 with the kids last night and Master Shifu said "If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than who you are." So true!

 

Some interesting (and dumb) facts about daylight savings time.....

United States Department of Energy shares unique facts about Daylight Saving Time. Daylight Saving Time of 2022 will begin at 2a.m. March 13 and end at 2 a.m. Nov. 6.

1. Why is Daylight Saving Time observed on the second Sunday of March? — While some may think it is to give farmers an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings during warmer months, Daylight Saving Time was seen as a means to help reduce electricity use in buildings. It hasn't always happened on the second Sunday in March. The Energy Policy Act of 2005, which was implemented in 2007, added four weeks to Daylight Saving Time by changing it to start on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November.

2. What is the purpose of Daylight Saving Time? — Daylight Saving Time is observed for several reasons: It saves energy. During Daylight Saving Time, the sun sets one hour later in the evening, so the need to use electricity for household lighting and appliances is reduced. It saves lives and prevents traffic injuries. During Daylight Saving Time, more people travel to and from school and work and complete errands during the daylight. It reduces crime. More people are out conducting their affairs during the daylight rather than at night, when more crime occurs.

3. Who is credited for inventing Daylight Saving Time? — Sometimes credited with inventing Daylight Saving Time, Benjamin Franklin — the man who is know for saying "Early to bed and early to rise," — did not actually suggest a change in time. Franklin's connection to Daylight Saving Time comes from his 1784 satirical letter to the editor in the Journal de Paris in which he proposed that Parisians could save money on candles by waking up before their normal time of noon. Depending on how the question is phrased, Daylight Saving Time is either credited to a New Zealand entomologist who proposed the idea in a 1895 paper or an Englishman who campaigned to get the British parliament to pass a Daylight Saving Bill in 1908. In the end, Germany was the first country to implement Daylight Saving Time in 1916 to conserve resources during World War I.

4. When did the United States adopt Daylight Saving Time? — The U.S. Adopted Daylight Saving Time towards the end of World War I and then again during World War II, but between 1945 and 1966, there was no federal law regulating it. This led to confusion between states, and in 1966 Congress passed the Uniform Time Act to establish uniform dates for observing Daylight Saving Time. Not all states will change their clocks on Sunday. Hawaii and Arizona (excluding the Navajo Nation) along with the U.S. overseas territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands do not observe Daylight Saving Time.

5. How much energy does Daylight Saving Time save? — In 2008, Energy Department experts studied the impact of the extended Daylight Saving Time on energy consumption in the U.S. and found that the extra four weeks of Daylight Saving Time saved about 0.5 percent in total electricity per day. While this might not sound like a lot, it adds up to electricity savings of 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours — or the amount of electricity used by more than 100,000 households for an entire year. These electricity savings generally occur during a three- to five-hour period in the evening.


New poll. Thanks for the idea @PzTank

 

Here's one of the dumber facts posted above "It reduces crime. More people are out conducting their affairs during the daylight rather than at night, when more crime occurs."

People still gonna commit crime, they just wait an hour later to do it

 

I always preferred to go to work when it was dark and have some daylight when I got home to take care of my stuff

 

1st vote

 

Some 1/8” slots in stainless pipe this morning. Left the tall jaws on for the other job, 4” aluminum channel to come.

 

Thanks @six5crèéd for the poll and the facts!!

Could you add an option for sticking with Standard Time?

Guess I’m in the minority of minorities

I’d prefer we stick with Standard Time if we went to no clocks changing. For as long as I can remember, I’ve never adjusted well to DST and when the clocks go back, everything seems to settle..

I also have vague memories of this back in the day:
https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/

 

Added!

 

Voted!