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From 1945 to 1966, there was no federal law regarding daylight saving time, so states and localities were free to choose whether to observe it, and could choose when it began and ended. By 1962, the transportation industry found the lack of nationwide consistency in time observance confusing enough to push for federal regulation. This drive resulted in the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (P.L. 89-387). The act mandated standard time within the established time zones and provided for advanced time: clocks would be advanced one hour beginning at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday in April and turned back one hour at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday in October. States were allowed to exempt themselves from DST as long as the entire state did so. If a state chose to observe DST, the time changes were required to begin and end on the established dates. In 1968, Arizona became the first state to exempt itself from DST. In 1972, the act was amended (P.L. 92-267), allowing those states split between time zones to exempt either the entire state or that part of the state lying within a different time zone. The newly created Department of Transportation (DOT) was given the power to enforce the law. Currently, the following states and territories do not observe DST: Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.[2]
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From 1987 to 2006, daylight saving time in the United States began on the first Sunday of April...By the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States beginning in 2007. DST currently starts on the second Sunday of March, which is three or four weeks earlier than in the past
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Matthew 24:22
"And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."
KJV
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Originally posted by nightstalker78
Been posted.Hate to be that guy.But I know you know it was because you posted on the same thread I did ! Really?! Come on. I swear sometimes I think I'm reading Ebaums World.edit on 11-3-2012 by nightstalker78 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by defcon5
reply to post by this_is_who_we_are
If I recall correctly the “sun raising early in Greenland” thing was not about the sun at all, but rather about the fact that the ice shelves had receded so drastically. The ice sheets had in previous years been high enough to block the sun, which is low on the horizon at that time of the year, during all proceeding years.
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by Human_Alien
The scientific explanation is that the warming Arctic air is causing temperature inversions, which in turn cause the light of the sunset to refract so that the sun appears to be setting a few kilometres off-kilter. “There is so much garbage in the air, it’s refraction that’s causing our elders to think our world has tilted,” Kunuk says.
that sounds resonable...
kx
Plus degrees in December (Polar night ends TWO DAYS early? )
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Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
At the outset in 1966 Daylight Savings Time was scheduled for the last Sunday in April. But this has changed...
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5/15/2011 @ 11:13 PM
Originally posted by Thurisaz
S & F from me.
You are right. It is generally a sublte transission because of how we r connected to the solar system. Each year is only really 364.25 days long. We have a leap year every four years to allow for that but you need to extend it outwards and apply the data.
the issue is that one day every four years might be tolerated with our Calendar but is in opposition to the bigger picture. If you consider one day every four years over a marginal period of 2000 years, that equates to the seasonal change. We then say, oh it is the El Ninio affect or Global Warming... in Aust we are at the beginning of Winter (technically) and yet we are based on our Calendar at the beginning of Autumn.
a small discrepancy will not be noticeble immediately but over time... obvious.
In Sweden the switch from the old to the new calender was performed under weird circumstances. First, the year 1700 was declared a common year instead of a leap year, thus putting the calendar in Sweden one day ahead of the Julian calendar and leaving a difference between the Gregorian and the Swedish calendar of ten days. The re-adoption of the Julian calendar was done by adding a 30th day to February in 1712. The Swedish waited another 41 years before introducing the Gregorian calender in 1753.
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The 2007 U.S. change was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; previously, from 1987 through 2006, the start and end dates were the first Sunday in April and the last Sunday in October, and Congress retains the right to go back to the previous dates now that an energy-consumption study has been done.
Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
The other thing that pops into my head when considering this subject is the quote from Matthew 24:22 concerning the "end times" -
Matthew 24:22
"And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."