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Daylight savings
Students should get ready to spring forward
Burgos, Paul
Issue date: 3/8/07 Section: News
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Do you know what time it is? Well, in a little less than a week from now, you're going to be an hour late if you don't set your clocks ahead an hour.
What does that mean to Chabot students? It means that if you are worrying whether you are late to class or not, no matter how much you hurry, if you don't change your clocks on March 11, the next day you will be considered tardy.
The new extension of daylight savings time was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that was signed by President Bush. This means that, like it or not, daylight savings time will be extended.
Originally planned for the first Sunday in March to the last Sunday in November, most of the people especially in Indiana and in West Virginia complain about how tough it would be for children to wait for the bus because of the chance of being late.
Though this issue was addressed, the change is still being scheduled to begin in the second week of March until the first week of November. This change is basically a provision to see whether people can save energy by extending daylight savings time another four to five weeks as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
According to Dan Plockne, geography instructor, daylight savings time was meant to save energy by increasing activity among people particularly after 6 p.m. Another reason daylight savings time is important is because of the farmers who need to use daylight to harvest their crops.
The only three states that do not observe daylight savings time are Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation which takes their time zones to two different states), Hawaii, and the eastern time zone of Indiana.
Plockne also implied that the downside of daylight savings time is that most people, specifically those who are in stock trading, will have problems telling what time it really is in China or in Japan because they won't know what time it is in New York or in San Francisco.
Countries will have trouble telling time because not all countries have times starting at the hour or half hour. So come this March 11, if you wake up an hour late not knowing that daylight savings time already started, you might as well tell your boss that you're late because you forgot to set your clock ahead!
What does that mean to Chabot students? It means that if you are worrying whether you are late to class or not, no matter how much you hurry, if you don't change your clocks on March 11, the next day you will be considered tardy.
The new extension of daylight savings time was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that was signed by President Bush. This means that, like it or not, daylight savings time will be extended.
Originally planned for the first Sunday in March to the last Sunday in November, most of the people especially in Indiana and in West Virginia complain about how tough it would be for children to wait for the bus because of the chance of being late.
Though this issue was addressed, the change is still being scheduled to begin in the second week of March until the first week of November. This change is basically a provision to see whether people can save energy by extending daylight savings time another four to five weeks as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
According to Dan Plockne, geography instructor, daylight savings time was meant to save energy by increasing activity among people particularly after 6 p.m. Another reason daylight savings time is important is because of the farmers who need to use daylight to harvest their crops.
The only three states that do not observe daylight savings time are Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation which takes their time zones to two different states), Hawaii, and the eastern time zone of Indiana.
Plockne also implied that the downside of daylight savings time is that most people, specifically those who are in stock trading, will have problems telling what time it really is in China or in Japan because they won't know what time it is in New York or in San Francisco.
Countries will have trouble telling time because not all countries have times starting at the hour or half hour. So come this March 11, if you wake up an hour late not knowing that daylight savings time already started, you might as well tell your boss that you're late because you forgot to set your clock ahead!
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