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Daylight Savings

March 2, 2012 by · Comments Off on Daylight Savings 

Daylight Savings, You might wish Spring Break would stick around longer than a week. On the bright side, all the campus clocks should be set to the correct time when you return.

Daylight Saving Time begins March 11 at 2 a.m. So the clocks on campus (and your own clock, if you don’t want to be late for class) must be set an hour ahead.

The Power Plant Division used to readjust the clocks every 24 hours using a campus-wide bell system, said Mike Thomas, the maintenance and construction superintendent, in an email. However, that system was done away with sometime in the last five to 10 years.

The PPD still sets the memorial clock outside the O’Connell Center and the automated clocks that have been installed in some buildings, but each department is now responsible for setting its own wall clocks.

In the Reitz Union, most of the clocks are automated, according to John Duncan, the operations manager.

He said, “I know there’s one battery-operated clock in the Welcome Center, and I’m usually the one to get up and spin the little dial.”

Daylight Savings 2011

September 8, 2011 by · Comments Off on Daylight Savings 2011 

Daylight Savings 2011Daylight Savings 2011, This is the time of year when everyone starts to wonder, when is supposed to “fall back” for daylight savings. It is autumn, after all. Should not we all be banging your head against the steering wheel, trying to remember how to change the timers time our car back soon? Hell, I have watches that have not “come forward” which can only be reused once the great swicheroo happens.

All business can be confusing. Especially after the government extended a month in 2007. According to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, DST begins at 2 AM on the second Sunday in March and ends at 2 am on the first Sunday in November. In 2011, it will be November 5.

Daylight Saving Time is observed in most of the United States. If you live in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or most of Arizona, however, do not bother to watch exchange. If you’re wondering how only the “majority” Arizona may be the summer time, the Navajo Indian Reservation maintains local daylight saving time, even though the rest of the States’ decision to avoid it.

Basically, it’s a wonder that none of us knows what time is it at all.

So why are we going to all this trouble to change our clocks back and forth during the year? DST plans to save energy that gives us more in the afternoon and evening sunlight. If it really does is much debated.

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