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Show Ghe Salt LakeTribune SUNDAY,April 7, 2002 TheSaltLakeTribune UTAH ONLINE knowthe official reasons for vearofextended lieenveloping us today but Ihave my own theory. It started out, as the graphic at right N explains, a wayto save fuel during oon occurs one 2 minute later World War I by putting more darkness into bedtime time,thereby saving on heatand electricity. (Wetried it briefly on a year-around basis during fi re were =, yi Wl Sas s daylight saving. What a about standard time, whence sprang daylight- | otherhalf of the year? What standards? = took all day 125 il miles. What's saved Reduces traffic the tinkling of ice at sunset.” Hear, 1 when it eae eae | if oh ply, Compose As thelate golfing great Bobby Jones observed: “There is nothing quite like 1 population which was 1STS-TS Arab of embargo outs time to enjoy the waning sun. kept their in aeoenone me a chance to get home from work in city’s no big deal ing four time zones — Eastern, Central, olstaio Mountain, Pacific — effective Nov. 18 of that year. Preachers (concerned about messing up aunitorm US. system around with “God's time”) and Con1966 To because it allows youth baseball players light in whichandtogolfers see themore ball, itnatural permits picnics and backyard barbecues to run ater and, best ofall it gives people like and each ordersme shit to conserve fuel forWorldWar | effort ter peas Daylight-saving persists today, I tural areas own time. s = WiBus, the fields, back when wehad farmers. one moves westward. : Everyone in z kept “sun time’ farmers. Day! saving permitted more light to work 13.5 miles consumpbon = eee t change their clocks saving time and which controls us the Arizona @ Hawaii Whose standards? How did the world end up with standard time zones? It had little todo with government, I found. KRT @ Puerto Rico BUS Virgin Samoa lehem. Not surprisingly, Greenwich won out. Within a few years, the world’s time became standardized. one minute later for every 13.5 miles one gress head Daniel Boorstin devoted a section of his book, The Creators,to the topic. moves westward. Everyone in rural areas and each city’s population kept their own time, in Mesopotamia thousands of years ago, but travel 25 miles. tionshipto the sun (back then they thoughtit _tively fast trains, says Gordon. “A train would Hours, minutes and seconds were created was the other way around. but it didn't mat- Q.- Is it time to bring back the draft? 5% - Yes, the forces of terror in today’s world and es increasing Chaos ied the arrival ofrela- ter to primitive sundials). “The time” was numbers. 17% - Yes,all young Americans ought to serve their While some countries have adjusted their time zones 30 minutes either way (Afghanistan is one example), the 24 time zones have become so much a part ofour fabric it is hard to imagine a world turning without it. which was no bigdeal when it took all day to 74% ~No, the military as a career choice provides Daylight-saving time was another matter. States and nations have been free to accept qualified or reject the extra evening light. Count me Irate with Bobby Jones. what it needed to be at anygivenlocale. Author/historian John Steele Gordon con- and shippers, who cause oftime cisely outlined this problem in a recent issue Britain was the first country to adopt a standard time, Greenwich time. A small na- ofAmerican Heritage magazine: Noon occurs wisdom ofthe plan with one objection: Meridians for the world were based on the prime meridian, Greenwich. That did not sit well with other nations, especially France, who were not about to accept that the basis for the world’s time resided in England. A world convention was called to settle the matter. Some wanted the as the planet's police force Asa subject, time fascinates me. How time was based on the earth's rotational rela. gress resisted. Nearly everyone else except Detroit (see chart) soon saw the @indiana (Eastem Islands Time part) @ American did something that so dominates our lives come about? Former Library of Con- City 10:30 a.m. in San Francisco and ‘1784 Proposed by 78-year-old Benjamin Franklin as @ way of saving candies 1883 U.S. railroads set up national time zones; Detrott defied system until 1905, wenicene Gene T or evi to trave Wy We Spring Abead, Fall Back Daylight-saving time, which adjusts work and school hours to summer's longer days, was first used in the United States in 1918. tion, it required but a single set time. ‘The United States took note. Being eight times wider than Britain, a single time zone would make noon in Kansas pile connections beined.” more motivated personnel. 4% - Unsure (internet polls are unscientific and of anyoneother than the actual respondents.) THE AMERICAS Compiled by KEVIN ROCHE Costa Rica: The two candidates in today’s presidential runoff election share similar visions for Costa Rica's economy and environment, so the dif- ther obtained the required 40 percent fore he died. The rebels refused, and in December the 12-year-old boy died of cancer. W Venezuela: Venezuela's largest labor group said it will hold a one<day general strike Tuesday to support oil executives — a dispute that is alreadydi company. Their strike continued fora third daySaturday Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque also accused the United States of conducting “electronic espionage” at its office in Havana. @ Canada: it is cruel and inhumane to was the largest held down s drugged 16earl Je hovah's Witness on a hospital bed and force her to receive blood transfu i "ald anywhere inthe word, a 8 Congo: Top aides accused in the ascould not immediately be S@Ssination YO rent Kabila offered dramatic testi ‘sions against her religious beliefs, her lawyer told a packed Alberts court. mony Thursday of Thursday's police on horseback ‘The girl is asking the Court of Queen's with protesters March 31 out- (oun! marked the first Bench to overturn a lower court ruling a remote Australian detention erties - murder. accounts of Kabila’s least three protest. 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