Time Change Tonight (No April Fool's Joke)
I have been waiting since the time I started blogging to write this entry. Tonight is the time change thereby moving many of the clocks in the United States forward one hour. This means that the sun will rise and set one hour later than before the time change.
This time change does not happen all over the world at the same time, nor does it happen everywhere in the world. If you live near the equator, day and night are nearly the same length (12 hours). But elsewhere on Earth, there is much more daylight in the summer than in the winter. The closer you live to the North or South Pole, the longer the period of daylight in the Summer. Thus, Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) is usually not helpful in the tropics, and countries near the equator generally do not change their clocks. In the U.S., Arizona, part of Indiana and Hawaii do not change they clocks.
Why do we do this? It all started with the idea from Benjamin Franklin. His purpose was to have people work during daylight hours and cut down on the amount of candles used. Every morning as soon as the sun shall rise, church bells and, if necessary, cannon shall inform the citizenry of the advent of light and "awaken the sluggards effectually and make them open their eyes to see their true interests ... All the difficulty will be in the first two or three days; after which the reformation will be as natural and easy as the present irregularity. ... Oblige a man to rise at four in the morning, and it is probable he will go willingly to bed at eight in the evening."
But in order to have daily savings time work correctly, everyone also needed to begin using a standard time. Introducing time zones (the other evil of transportation). It is the time zone that adds to the frustration of time changes. For instance, during one part of the year, Arizona falls into the Pacific time zone and during the other, the Mountain time zone. With the introduction of air travel, this can often confuse flyers.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). Why make it harder than it is. We are capable of synchronizing all of the clocks of the world within a hundredth of a millisecond. Everyone has a clear understanding as to how daylight works. We have a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) previously Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
So here is what I propose... Eliminate time zones and eliminate daylight savings time. The costs involved in moving clocks back and forth, lost human productivity due to clock changes, perfectly good smoke alarm batteries wasted just so people can continue to think inside the box bewilders me. Come out of the box. Why can't we all use the Universal Time?
I don't care if I am leaving for work at 11:00 AM to be there at 12:00 Noon as long as the sun is rising at 11:00 AM (which it is). My office opens at Noon. My company does business across multiple time zones and all of our systems run off of Universal Time. It doesn't make sense to run a business on any other clock when you are working across multiple time zones. The military has been using this time for YEARS for it's operations!
Write your Congressman and inform them that it is TIME to change TIME. Also, I have started a petition to eliminate the time change and time zones all together.
Did you know...
The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.
This time change does not happen all over the world at the same time, nor does it happen everywhere in the world. If you live near the equator, day and night are nearly the same length (12 hours). But elsewhere on Earth, there is much more daylight in the summer than in the winter. The closer you live to the North or South Pole, the longer the period of daylight in the Summer. Thus, Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) is usually not helpful in the tropics, and countries near the equator generally do not change their clocks. In the U.S., Arizona, part of Indiana and Hawaii do not change they clocks.
Why do we do this? It all started with the idea from Benjamin Franklin. His purpose was to have people work during daylight hours and cut down on the amount of candles used. Every morning as soon as the sun shall rise, church bells and, if necessary, cannon shall inform the citizenry of the advent of light and "awaken the sluggards effectually and make them open their eyes to see their true interests ... All the difficulty will be in the first two or three days; after which the reformation will be as natural and easy as the present irregularity. ... Oblige a man to rise at four in the morning, and it is probable he will go willingly to bed at eight in the evening."
But in order to have daily savings time work correctly, everyone also needed to begin using a standard time. Introducing time zones (the other evil of transportation). It is the time zone that adds to the frustration of time changes. For instance, during one part of the year, Arizona falls into the Pacific time zone and during the other, the Mountain time zone. With the introduction of air travel, this can often confuse flyers.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). Why make it harder than it is. We are capable of synchronizing all of the clocks of the world within a hundredth of a millisecond. Everyone has a clear understanding as to how daylight works. We have a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) previously Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
So here is what I propose... Eliminate time zones and eliminate daylight savings time. The costs involved in moving clocks back and forth, lost human productivity due to clock changes, perfectly good smoke alarm batteries wasted just so people can continue to think inside the box bewilders me. Come out of the box. Why can't we all use the Universal Time?
I don't care if I am leaving for work at 11:00 AM to be there at 12:00 Noon as long as the sun is rising at 11:00 AM (which it is). My office opens at Noon. My company does business across multiple time zones and all of our systems run off of Universal Time. It doesn't make sense to run a business on any other clock when you are working across multiple time zones. The military has been using this time for YEARS for it's operations!
Write your Congressman and inform them that it is TIME to change TIME. Also, I have started a petition to eliminate the time change and time zones all together.
Did you know...
The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.
Comments
I dont see any advantage for universal time than time zone. We all brought up with notion that sun rises at morning 6 and after evening 6 night starts. But if i chose to live in universal time, it will create a chaos. Suppose if my clock will be showing 12 noon and if it had been evening outside, then I cant relate the timing with outside changes.....!!!
i feel it will cause a chaos