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Daylight saving: Is the time right? It starts next Sunday, sprung 3 weeks ahead.
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Mar 04, 2007 03:47pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Philadelphia Inquirer |
| News Date | Sunday, March 4, 2007 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Philadelphia Inquirer article.
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"It's still very much winter here. But next Sunday, the county and most of the rest of the United States will engage in what's normally a springtime ritual: moving the clocks ahead one hour for daylight saving time. It'll be lighter later, and dawn's cracking will be delayed 60 minutes.
"It's definitely going to have its effect," said Scott Walker, an owner of Jersey Asparagus Farms in sleepy Pittsgrove Township. "I'm not fond of having to get up and work in the dark. And a lot of what we do in the field will have to wait till light."
Beyond the inconveniences farmers must endure, there are other implications in Congress' decision to begin daylight saving time three weeks early, and to extend it for an extra week in the fall.
Many students and workers will be rising and setting out in blackness. Parents will be trying to get young kids to bed while it's still light. And electronic devices with clocks - from computers to cell phones - could display the wrong time.
Still, the change also may save both lives and energy throughout the country, some predict.
March, then, is coming in like a somewhat confused lion whose watch is fast.
The sun will rise about 7 a.m. and set about 7 p.m. on March 11, said Joe Patterson, an astronomer at Columbia University.
"This wrecks the old saying, 'Fall back, spring ahead,' " said Jennifer Yuan, a Center City communications analyst. " 'Fall back, late-winter ahead' doesn't do it for me."
Last year, daylight saving time began April 3 and ended Oct. 30.
The change this year to begin daylight saving time March 11 and extend it to Nov. 4 was made initially to save energy as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The four extra weeks of daylight saving time will inspire Americans to cut electrical consumption by about 1 percent, policy wonks predict." |
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