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Spring Forward
The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time
by Michael Downing
 Book
Description
Michael Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, the loopy idea that became
the most persistent political controversy in American history. Almost one
hundred years after Congressmen and lawmakers in every state first debated,
ridiculed, and then passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour
of daylight, no one can say for sure why we are required by law to change
our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme? The most
authoritative sources agree it was a Pittsburgh industrialist, Woodrow
Wilson, a man on a horse in London, a Manhattan socialite, Benjamin
Franklin, one of the Caesars, or the anonymous makers of ancient Chinese and
Japanese water clocks.
Spring Forward is a portrait of public policy in the 20th century,
a perennially boiling cauldron of unsubstantiated science, profiteering
masked as piety, and mysteriously shifting time-zone boundaries. It is a
true-to-life social comedy with Congress in the leading role, surrounded by
a supporting cast of opportunistic ministers, movie moguls, stockbrokers,
labor leaders, sports fanatics, and railroad execs. Buy it from:
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News:
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USA & Canada clocks
on Standard Time until:
Sunday 11 March 2012 2am local time
Europe / UK clocks
on Standard Time until:
Sunday 25 March 2012 01:00 GMT
UK clocks change trial being considered
Have your say YES
or NO
Australia clocks
on Daylight Saving Time
Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year
Delayed to 13 November 2011 at 01:00
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Websites:
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USA
Time + Canada Time
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Atlantic Time (Canada),
Eastern
Time (EST),
Central Time (CST),
Mountain Time (MT),
Pacific Time (PST),
Alaska Time (AKST),
Hawaii Time (HST),
Daylight
Saving Time (DST)
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Europe
Time
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Central European Time (CET),
Eastern European Time (EET),
Western European Time (WET),
British Summer Time (BST)
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Asia Pacific
Time
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China Time (CST),
India
Time (IST),
Japan
Time (JST)
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Countries
on GMT
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Europe
(Winter only)
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UK,
Ireland,
Portugal
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Africa
(All Year)
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St
Helena,
Burkina Faso,
Gambia,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
Ivory Coast,
Liberia,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Morocco,
Sao Tome,
Senegal,
Togo,
Western Sahara
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Remember:
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When you change
your
clocks
Change
your
Fire Alarm
batteries!
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