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Former Member
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Clock change 'stops outdoor play'
Not putting the clocks back would help in the fight against child obesity, a study suggests. According to research, children are more influenced by daylight than the weather when deciding whether or not to play outside. UK researchers report that not changing the clocks would give more opportunities for active play. It strengthens the public health arguments for proposed changes to daylight saving, they say. The research, published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, studied the activity levels of 325 children in south-east England aged between eight and 11. |
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Sandford Fleming Sets the World's Clock
In 1876, Canadian railway engineer Sandford Fleming missed a train. Fleming had assumed the time printed in the railroad’s time booklet was in the afternoon, rather than in the morning, and found himself without a ride. Frustrated, he did what no one had thought of before, he set about reforming the entire world’s method of telling time. And eventually, as a result of the work of Fleming and others, the United States and Canada established five standardized North American time zones on this day in 1883... |
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The world’s “time director” explainswhy we need to adjust our clocks permanently
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Time Keepers to Introduce Leap Second June 30
The world will not only be getting a leap day this year, we will have a leap second too. The arbiters of time at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERRSS) have announced they will be introducing a leap second on June 30th in order to keep up with the Earth’s rotation. What's a leap second? Give me a minute. Back in ye olden days of the 1950s, atomic clocks were introduced to measure the Earth’s rotation. Atomic clocks are pretty precise and are powered to oscillate exactly 9,192,631,770 times a second. The Earth, however, is less precise. As the Earth spins on its axis, slight deviations mean that some days end up being longer than others. Atomic clocks don't precisely match actual Earth time because the globe’s orbit tends to be irregular. A few years from now we’d find ourselves seconds out of kilter. In a few hundred years we’d be a minute out, and after several hundred thousand years, humans would find themselves eating lunch at midnight ..  |
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There was a little crisis in the DST administration world. 2 Volunteers who maintained a database of all the changes around the world in time keeping [read in some states of the USA some counties would not follow DST], and were sued over copyright infringement by some copyright troll. These guys stopped immediately pending the legal proceedings, and fortunately, the IT world at large depending on this database [except some such as MS who keep their own], the Canadian courts were not very receiving of the suite. Dismissed the claim and some apalogies offered by the claimant... I'd have gone for damages over the cost of legal support.
Anyhow, DST is still here, and early this your, next Saturday night, from the 24th to the 25th, we'll see the clock go forward at 02:00 AM screaming forward to 03:00 AM. Continue to be in favor as being in a timezone that hardly has any dark mornings, even in winter it's dawning by 8 but dark by 4:30 or even earlier on overcast days, so we like the extra hour of daylight in spring/summer, not 7:30PM but 8:30PM [when our dinner time starts]. The cows though don't care. In summer we can hear them mooing down the hill for their milking when it's still very dark on the clock. The cows are allowed at times to roam the olive orchard... free dung spreading [for the free minerals replenishment too], but only if the grass is higher and the soil is not soaked. --//-- |
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darth_vader
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There was a little crisis in the DST administration world. 2 Volunteers who maintained a database of all the changes around the world in time keeping [read in some states of the USA some counties would not follow DST], and were sued over copyright infringement by some copyright troll. These guys stopped immediately pending the legal proceedings, and fortunately, the IT world at large depending on this database [except some such as MS who keep their own], the Canadian courts were not very receiving of the suite. Dismissed the claim and some apalogies offered by the claimant... I'd have gone for damages over the cost of legal support. All this is yet another good reason to eliminate both DST and copyright trolls. We "wintered forward" this year instead of "springing forward". The whole thing is ridiculous. Noon should be in the middle of the day, or as close as you can get for the mean solar day over the year. If people want a so-called extra hour (a fallacy if ever there was one), then working hours should be moved --- not the time. Some countries and states are wise enough to not participate in this foolishness. Maybe others will see the light someday. - D |
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gb009761
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Welcome to British Summer Time
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Go away Danish Summer Time
 - get up early if you wish   - but don't mess with nature's clock, please |
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