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Savings Savvy on March 1st, 2010

I work in Construction and we usually start at 7:00 A.M. It is still pitch black!

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Savings Savvy on February 27th, 2010

Do I need to turn the clock forward or back and at what time?

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Savings Savvy on February 27th, 2010

I for one hate the fact that it’s still light out when I go to bed and the nights seem to go by way too fast IMO. I always looked forward the long nights of the fall and now that’s been shortened by two months. Is there any chance that we’ll go back to the [...]

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Savings Savvy on February 25th, 2010

Did you know you have to set your clocks forward on Saturday night? WTF, really? It’s like we’re trapped in some nightmare of our own devising. Can we just all agree not to change our clocks and end this bizarre experiment?

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Savings Savvy on February 24th, 2010

right click on your clock and click on adjust time/date and there should be a box that says automatically adjust to daylight savings time or something like that

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Savings Savvy on February 24th, 2010

When trying to explain time change (daylight savings time) to children do you come across as stupid or as a creepy hobo who controls the very fabric of space and time?

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Savings Savvy on February 23rd, 2010

well, daylight savings time doesnt save energy. In fact, it uses more energy. DST wasn’t instituted to save energy, it was instituted to allow for longer business days, particularly for the construction and recreation industries. More daylight means more time on the construction site, or more time to recreate. construction uses [...]

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Savings Savvy on February 23rd, 2010

Does Windows XP have the same problem with daylight savings time as Windows 2000?

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Savings Savvy on February 22nd, 2010

It’s pointless, it uses MORE energy (per several research studies done on the subject), and having it light late in the summer is bad enough (you can’t go to sleep and especially because it’s too sunny all summer, the sun just shines in your eyes an hour longer), there’s no need to extend it even [...]

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Savings Savvy on February 21st, 2010

Early adoption in law
Daylight Saving Time has been used in the U.S. and in many European countries since World War I. At that time, in an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria took time by the forelock, and began saving daylight at 11:00 p.m. on April 30, 1916, by [...]

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