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    at 2:00AM Sunday Morning we Fall back and turn our Clocks in the US back 1 hour, Just a Reminder to everyone we get an extra hour of sleep

     

    Here is a Little Info on Daylight Savings time

    Daylight Saving Time has been used in the United States and in many European countries since World War I.

     

    During World War I, in an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria took time by the forelock, and began saving daylight at 11 p.m. on the 30th of April, 1916, by advancing the hands of the clock one hour until the following October. This 1916 action was immediately followed by other countries in Europe, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Turkey, as were Tasmania, Nova Scotia, and Manitoba. Britian began 3 weeks later, on 21 May 1916. In 1917, Australia, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia initiated it.

     

    The plan was not formally adopted in the United States until 1918. 'An Act to preserve daylight and provide standard time for the United States' was enacted on 19 March 1918. [see law] It both established standard time zones and set summer DST to begin on 31 March 1918. Daylight Saving Time was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919. After the War ended, the law, however, proved so unpopular (mostly because people rose earlier and went to bed earlier than we do today) that the law was later repealed in 1919 over President Wilson's veto. It became a local option, and was continued in a few states (Massachusetts, Rhode Island) and some cities (New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and others).

     

    During World War II, President Roosevelt instituted year-round Daylight Saving Time, called 'War Time.' (from 2 February 1942 to 30 September 1945). [see law] From 1945 to 1966, there was no federal law about Daylight Saving Time. So states and localities were free to choose whether to observe Daylight Saving Time and could choose when it began and ended. This, however, caused confusion -- especially for the broadcasting industry, and for railways, airlines, and bus companies. Because of the different local customs and laws, radio and TV stations and the transportation companies had to publish new schedules every time a state or town began or ended Daylight Saving Time.

     

    On 4 January 1974, President Nixon signed into law the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973. Then, beginning on 6 January 1974, implementing the Daylight Saving Time Energy Act, clocks were set ahead for a fifteen-month period through 27 April 1975.

     

    Inconsistent use in the U.S.

     

    In the early 1960's, observance of Daylight Saving Time was quite inconsistent, with a hodgepodge of time observances, and no agreement when to change clocks. The Interstate Commerce Commission, the nation's timekeeper, was immobilized, and the matter remained deadlocked. Many business interests were supportive of standardization, although it became a bitter fight between the indoor and outdoor theater industries. The farmers, however, were opposed to such uniformity. State and local governments were a mixed bag, depending on local conditions.

     

    Efforts at standardization were encouraged by a transportation industry organization, the Committee for Time Uniformity. They surveyed the entire nation, through telephone operators, as to local time observances, and found the situation was quite confusing. Next, the Committee's goal was a strong supportive story on the first page of the New York Times. With the general public's support rallied, the Time Uniformity Committee's goal was accomplished but only after discovering and disclosing that on the 35-mile stretch of highway (Route 2) between Moundsville, West Virginia, and Steubenville, Ohio, every bus driver and his passengers had to endure seven time changes!

     

    The Uniform Time Act

     

    By 1966, some 100 million Americans were observing Daylight Saving Time based on their own local laws and customs. Congress decided to step in to end the confusion and establish one pattern across the country. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S. Code Section 260a) [see law] which was signed into Public Law 89-387 on 12 April 1966, by President Lyndon Johnson, created Daylight Saving Time to begin on the last Sunday of April and to end on the last Sunday of October. Any State that wanted to be exempt from Daylight Saving Time could do so by passing a State law.

     

    The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established a system of uniform (within each time zone) Daylight Saving Time throughout the U.S. and its possessions, exempting only those states in which the legislatures voted to keep the entire state on standard time.

     

    In 1972, Congress revised the law to provide that, if a State was in two or more time zones, the State could exempt the part of the State that was in one time zone while providing that the part of the State in a different time zone would observe Daylight Saving Time. The Federal law was amended in 1986 to begin Daylight Saving Time on the first Sunday in April.

     

    Under legislation enacted in 1986, Daylight Saving Time in the USA

     

        * begins at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of April and

        * ends at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October

     

    In most of the countries of western Europe, including the countries that are members of the EU, Daylight Saving Time:

     

        * begins at 1 a.m. GMT on the last Sunday of March and

        * ends at 1 a.m. GMT on the last Sunday of October

     

    Observance of Daylight Saving Time elsewhere in the world is highly variable

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    Male Language Patterns !

     

    "I was just thinking about you, and got you these roses," REALLY MEANS, "The girl selling them on the corner was a real babe, wearing a thong."

     

    "Hey, I've got reasons for what I'm doing," REALLY MEANS, "I sure hope I think of some pretty soon."

     

    "What did I do this time ?" REALLY MEANS, "What did you catch me doing ?"

     

    "She's one of the rabid feminists," REALLY MEANS, "She refused to make my coffee."

     

    "You really look terrific in that outfit," REALLY MEANS, "Please don't try on another outfit. I'm starving."

     

    "I missed you," REALLY MEANS, "I can't find my sock drawer, the kids are hungry and we are out of toilet paper."

     

    "Can I help with dinner ?" REALLY MEANS, "Why isn't it already on the table ?"

     

    "It would take too long to explain," REALLY MEANS, "Your a dumb Bimbo and Can't understand anything."

     

    "That's interesting, dear," REALLY MEANS, "Are you still talking ?"

     

    "Honey, we don't need material things to prove our love," REALLY MEANS, "I forgot our anniversary again."

     

    "This relationship is getting too serious," REALLY MEANS, "I like you as much as I like my truck."

     

    "We share the housework," REALLY MEANS, "I make the messes. She cleans them up."

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  5. Posted

    But it really shoul be the Home teams Choice, when the steelers played the Texans it was close to 100 and the texans thought they would have an advantage with the Roof open, LOL, anyway they shouldnt worry about the roof, but getting the calls right on the field, I also think MLB has to start about starting these games at 7 and i mean the 1st pitch at 7, in Markets like Pittsburgh who has no chance ever competing under the current Economical state of baseball, has no chance of making a World Series, the ones that might be intrested inWatching it anyway will miss the ending cause of School in the Morning, they are gonna lose a whole Generation of Fans, this IMO is worst then the NHL losing a wholse season cause its the World Series, stuff Legends are made of and the game isnt over till 2:00 AM EST

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    TNA will I bet in a year or so realy give WWE a run for its Money, i hope they move it to Mondays for 2 hours live, and I would love to see them start house shows and get away from Universal Studios soon too, the action on it is amazing, and after Raw Monday I lost my faith in WWE

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    I think MLB is losing its younger fan base here on the East coast, the games are starting too late and ending too late, they need to start these games @ 7 EST so all the fans can watch them, what if one of these games would go 18 innings like the Astros/Braves game did in the NLDS