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   Video: Daylight Savings Time Debunked, and Don't Forget to Spring Ahead   
      
   ICTMN Staff   
   3/8/14   
   It's that time of year again, when the available light does not match the   
   available heat. Before we go to bed on Saturday March 8--or not, if all our   
   devices update themselves--we set our clocks ahead an hour, as Daylight   
   Savings Time clicks into place    
   at precisely 2 a.m. on Sunday the 9th.   
      
   Nothing astronomical is happening, of course. This one is all about us   
   humans--our desire to save energy, according to WiseGeek.org. Conceived by   
   Benjamin Franklin in concept in 1784, Daylight Saving (no "s," though that is   
   a popular mistake) Time is    
   today observed in about 70 countries around the world. the site says. Franklin   
   did not propose changing clocks; he merely suggested a change in sleep   
   schedule, WiseGeek.org says.   
      
   It was up to one George Vernon Hudson to recommend changing the clocks, which   
   he did in 1895, according to Timeanddate.com. He died before it was   
   implemented, which happened in Germany in 1916, National Geographic recounts.   
      
   "The clock change has two main purposes: to increase evening daytime hours for   
   outdoor leisure activities and to save on energy consumption," said   
   WiseGeek.org, a "team of researchers, writers and editors dedicated to   
   providing short, clear and concise    
   answers to common questions," according to its site.   
      
   The time change was not standardized and legislated in the U.S. until 1966,   
   WiseGeek.org says, and even today, states can pass a law that enables them not   
   to observe it. Utah is in the throes of just such a referendum, the Provo   
   Daily Herald reports.    
   House Bill 197 (H.B. 197), making its way through the state legislature, would   
   require the governor's Office of Economic Development to meet with "the   
   various interested parties on the issue to discuss if Utah should end the   
   practice of springing forward    
   and falling back," the Daily Herald reported on March 5. The goal is mainly to   
   let Utah residents know that they have the option to switch if they want to,   
   Republican State Representative Ronda Menlove told the newspaper.   
      
   Kentucky also is studying a bill to abolish Daylight Saving Time, while   
   neighboring Tennessee is looking at extending DST year-round. But Utah and   
   Kentucky aren't the only places where Daylight Savings Time is not welcome.   
   Astronomers hate it too,    
   according to the site Astroguyz.com. Besides being confusing because it is not   
   observed consistently, it was based on now-antiquated notions of work habits   
   and energy usage, the site notes.   
      
   Although the U.S. moved Daylight Savings Time up by three weeks in 2007,   
   Europe continues to observe it beginning March 30, according to    
   imeanddate.com, which has a wealth of information on time zones and time   
   changes. Either way, we here on Turtle    
   Island will not see that hour again until November 2, when it is returned to   
   us.   
      
   Astroguyz.com highlighted this video explaining the whys, wherefores and   
   what-fors of Daylight Saving Time. It even talks about the changes within the   
   Navajo and Hopi nations as one example of why Daylight Saving Time is   
   overrated by those who would    
   extoll its light-giving and money-saving qualities.   
      
   As the allegedly American Indian quip goes, "Only the government would believe   
   that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and   
   have a longer blanket."   
      
   RELATED: The Clocks Go Back an Hour, Though You Still Can't Turn Back Time   
      
      
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