Show Even though most of us have already had the experience of turning our clocks forward an hour due to the power outage a week ago go last Saturday this week we will again make the rounds giving the big hand an extra revolution Daylight Saving Time off officially of f begins at 2 2 am a.m. Sunday April 25 The real purpose of DST is to get us going an ext extra a hour earlier in the mornings Most of us dont don't like the idea of getting up in the early hours its it's just too loo nice to sleep in So Sowe Sowe Sowe we just set the clock ahead making it an hour later so we will feel better about getting up earlier Actually daylight saving has been practiced even before the invention of the clock and andar ar ar artificial lighting Years ago man automatically adjusted his life liCe to the daylight hours He would get up when the sun sun rose and retire when it got dark Not only did this save save switching the clocks back and forth each summer and fall fall it also saved the t turning on and off of the lights each day we require additional additional additional ad ad- Ii lighting in most of our homes and businesses during the daylight hours as well as in inthe inthe inthe the ni night ht time Benj Benjamin min Franklin wrote in inan inan inan an essay that many candles would be saved if Americans arose from their beds earlier in inthe inthe inthe the summertime and retired before darkness d fell Most people jUst smiled at the idea Later William Willett of England published a treatise on Waste of Daylight in which he advocated setting selling the clocks ahead d inthe il s summer months This w was S introduced into the H House use of Commons as a's as Willetts Time but failed to pass After Willetts Willett's death in In 1915 the British adopted his plan with modification Their World War I enemy Germ Germany ny had set the German clocks ahead as asa asa asa a war measure measure so the British took a a similar action The United States Stales Congress passed a national Daylight Saving Time measure from March through October upon pon entering the World War I. I President Woodrow Wilson f favored the fast time during the summer months after aCter the war but a reluctant C Congress repealed the act in 1919 World War II 11 ll 01 brought back the the fast time but when war war was was was' over in 1945 the time also went back to normal Today's DST d dates tes back to 1967 except for a brief repeal during the energy-crisis energy winter of 1974 Now DST ca can b be argued as a energy saving device But to some changing the clocks during the summer months and getting up an hour earlier doesn't save energy it takes lakes more energy Anyway its it's fun to have a change once in a while and to see who gets caught sleeping in inor inor or changing ch nging the clock the wrong way Speaking of time reminds us that we have until May to encourage good leaders to sign signup signup signup up for the local political offices due for election this fall We need two county commissioners and one state representative If the people we want to represent us In political offices dont don't signup signup sign sign- up before the deadline we cant can't vote on them at the Primary and the November elections election June 30 is the deadline for filing for two local school board members to also be elected this trus year Lets Let's do some arm twisting and get those hose we would like to represent us to sign up before It is too late Will oil shale suffer buffer the same as did This is the big question circulating around the area The two are very similar in recent problems Eventually they will both be needed it is only a matter of time again But put time is the factor that killed Thirteen years of environmental study proved a tremendous escalation in costs and then the threatening law |