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Daylight Savings Time-When?

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Q. Since Indiana start observing the daylight savings time, when will your state going to start observing DST? I know it kind off of the air, but it relates due to Arizona have to adjust their network feed when they are in DST or Standard time.
 
> Q. Since Indiana start observing the daylight savings time,
> when will your state going to start observing DST? I know it
> kind off of the air, but it relates due to Arizona have to
> adjust their network feed when they are in DST or Standard
> time.
>
I think the question to ask is why do we still adjust our clocks? I understand in the past it was mainly for farmers but in 2006 do we need to adjust our clocks twice a year? Hmmmmmm
 
> Q. Since Indiana start observing the daylight savings time,
> when will your state going to start observing DST?

When Yuma freezes over. :-D

IIRC, Arizona tried DST sometime in the late '60s and it failed miserably. It's just too hot in the summer in most of the state to deal with the sun still being up later at night. We just don't need the so-called "extra hour of daylight" in an area where the average high temperature is over 100 degrees 4 months out of the year.

Arizona would observe DST if they changed our time zone from Mountain to Pacific. Don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen either, although for all intents and purposes we'll be in the Pacific Time Zone 8 months out of the year starting in 2007 (a very politically-incorrect thing to say in this neck of the desert :-D ).

> I know it kind off of the air, but it relates due to Arizona have to
> adjust their network feed when they are in DST or Standard time.

I'm sure those who have to deal with network feeds are well-prepared.
 
> I think the question to ask is why do we still adjust our
> clocks? I understand in the past it was mainly for farmers
> but in 2006 do we need to adjust our clocks twice a year?
> Hmmmmmm

Officially it's to save energy, although it would have the exact opposite effect in southern Arizona - probably the main reason why we don't observe DST here outside the Navajo Reservation.

<a target="_blank" href=http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/boundaries/a_savingtime.html>Link: NationalAtlas.gov</a>
 
> We just don't need the so-called "extra hour
> of daylight"...

Thank you for adding the modifier ("so called")
since you don't get an extra hour, you just move
an hour from morning to evening on the clock.


> I'm sure those who have to deal with network feeds
> are well-prepared.

I will try very hard here not to rail against the
stupid cable company and their love affair with
left coast feeds in the winter.

;-)
 
> I think the question to ask is why do we still
> adjust our clocks? I understand in the past
> it was mainly for farmers...

Just the opposite, farmers never wanted DST.
States with large rural areas (and a strong
farm lobby) were among the last holdouts.
 
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