29 October 2011

Daylight Savings 2011

Sunday, November 6, 2011, we asked our clocks back one hour back 2.00.

Most people forget when clocks kept going forward or backward, in that important day, so I looked invented the words "spring forward" and "fall back". Also, most of us can not remember what day we actually change the clocks, such as date seems to change constantly. When most of us can not remember the date, and in which direction the clocks turn without slogan, maybe we should just forget everything and have a holiday on that day instead.

Since we work all year and really like riding in daylight, I could not really figure out the summer. First really does not seem to save every day. If now up to 6 h dark it gets dark this weekend already 5 h in the afternoon when we "fall back". Yes, it is true that there will be at 7 h instead of light at 08.00 h, but if we save? Are in the same amount of darkness or something?

I think the other part is the summer. In summer, the summer sun is an hour later, using electricity for lighting and appliances in the evening when we sit later, and before bedtime is approaching sunset. But the sun sets later in the summer anyway. Since the protocol was a government instigated our watches, which may explain the confusion may change.

Another thing I can not figure out what is in the morning for 2 hours. I mean, who stands at 2.00 clock clocks change? If there are so many digital watches, as we did, there is a real hassle and could take up to a total of at least 2.30, so we've lost sleep actually win, 2 times the clock transition.

It seems that other countries and even in Arizona, it's like just me. Arizona has decided to exempt from daylight saving time. SDRs were observed across the state, except Navajo Indian Reservation high. I am very glad to hear that, because from October to late November of next year we cross from San Diego to Miami bike. I was in Arizona at this time and wont have to change my watch!

So who is and who, in? Equatorial and tropical countries compliance is not summer time. Perhaps the sun rises and sets at the same time each day throughout the year, the closer you are to the equator. But China does not comply with daylight and the last time you were tested on the same general latitudes of North America. China changes give rise to 2 clock hours in 1991. Some areas of Canada with no daylight saving time, and in Fort St. John, Charlie Lake, Taylor and Dawson Creek in British Columbia, Creston in the East Kootenays, and most of Saskatchewan. Only this year that Newfoundland and Labrador came on board with the rest of us started a clock clock 02.00 in Canada, the Newfoundland and Labrador before and ended at summer time decent one minute after midnight (12: 01 h) time.

Australia can not really decide the northern part of the country does not follow daylight saving, is the south. Unfortunately, when we cross Australia on a bike will follow southern route from Perth to Sydney, as I continue my circumnavigation, and probably have to change my watch on the road.

However I still cycle through the winter, hoping one day we can figure out a way to change the clocks to give us more really light!