Where does the extra hour come from?

When we all turn the clocks back an hour, where does that "extra" hour come from? Do we buy all those hours from the Chinese? Is that hour just stored in the clock from when we jumped it forward last spring? Do people without clocks get a clock hour credit subsidy? How many man hours and lost productivity lost does the effort of resetting clocks cost? When at 2:00 AM I reset my clock am I now a time traveler returning to a previous time?

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[QUOTE=Tyme2fish;523829]When we all turn the clocks back an hour, where does that "extra" hour come from? Do we buy all those hours from the Chinese? Is that hour just stored in the clock from when we jumped it forward last spring? Do people without clocks get a clock hour credit subsidy? How many man hours and lost productivity lost does the effort of resetting clocks cost? When at 2:00 AM I reset my clock am I now a time traveler returning to a previous time?

:confused::confused:[/QUOTE]

Daylight savings is all about energy consumption. Ben Franklin proposed it as a way to save "candles".

[I][B]Benjamin Franklin is credited with conceiving the idea of daylight saving in 1784 to conserve candles, but the U.S. did not institute it until World War I as a way to preserve resources for the war effort. The first comprehensive study of its effectiveness occurred during the oil crisis of the 1970s, when the U.S. Department of Transportation found that daylight saving trimmed national electricity usage by roughly 1 percent compared with standard time.

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this brings up an old funny story. Remember when someone posted a few years back asking a question about how the time change would effect the wildlife movement and they where dead serious. Everytime the time changes i think about that and get a laugh about it

a wise old Indian once said, only a white man would think, you can cut a foot off the top of a blanket, and add it to the bottom of the blanket, to make it longer.

I personally like DST. The reason is about this time of year, places at KY lake and Dale Hollow go to "winter" hours. When they do that, if I stay fishin till DARK, no place is open for dinner. After DST goes into effect in the fall, it is dark by 6:00pm and most places are open till 7:00pm. It gives me a fightin chance to get the evening bite AND be able to eat dinner :) .

Later,

Geo

[QUOTE=Tyme2fish;523829]When we all turn the clocks back an hour, where does that "extra" hour come from? Do we buy all those hours from the Chinese? Is that hour just stored in the clock from when we jumped it forward last spring? Do people without clocks get a clock hour credit subsidy? How many man hours and lost productivity lost does the effort of resetting clocks cost? When at 2:00 AM I reset my clock am I now a time traveler returning to a previous time?

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After some research of how this started and considering the fella from New Zealand proposing DST in 1895, Germany starting it 1916, USA starting in 1918 the claimed savings on energy usage, the ability for folks who work inside to actually see the sun during the work week and all the other claims I have come to a conclusion......I blame Obama. He and only he has the gall to assume the sun sets and rises on his arse...... Just sayin. :)

[QUOTE=DJD;523855]After some research of how this started and considering the fella from New Zealand proposing DST in 1895, Germany starting it 1916, USA starting in 1918 the claimed savings on energy usage, the ability for folks who work inside to actually see the sun during the work week and all the other claims I have come to a conclusion......I blame Obama. He and only he has the gall to assume the sun sets and rises on his arse...... Just sayin. :)[/QUOTE] makes perfect sense, you assume he does most everything else.

[QUOTE=waterdog101;523863]makes perfect sense, you assume he does most everything else.[/QUOTE]

No not really. He hasn't balanced a budget, he hasn't cut the deficit and he hasn't allowed people to keep their current healthcare plans...but he did do or was associated with the attached. :) hahahaha enjoy!!

ohhh btw don't get your thong all backwards over this it's just a jab at your man crush..that is all.

[QUOTE=GeoFisher;523852]I personally like DST. The reason is about this time of year, places at KY lake and Dale Hollow go to "winter" hours. When they do that, if I stay fishin till DARK, no place is open for dinner. After DST goes into effect in the fall, it is dark by 6:00pm and most places are open till 7:00pm. It gives me a fightin chance to get the evening bite AND be able to eat dinner :) .

Later,

Geo[/QUOTE]

I hadn't thought of that, but that is one reason to like it. I haven't found any others and typically think it's pointless.

(But surely Tim's would stay open late enough to get a Tim Burger...)

[QUOTE=know1;523899]I hadn't thought of that, but that is one reason to like it. I haven't found any others and typically think it's pointless.

(But surely Tim's would stay open late enough to get a Tim Burger...)[/QUOTE]

OH YEA............ :)