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| Don't forget to prepare for Daylight Saving Time .... turn your clocks forward and check batteries in all smoke detectors |
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All the signs are present. The children have switched from jackets to shorts. The golf course is full. People are fishing. Most of the convertibles have their tops down. The temperatures are pushing high into the 70s. And it's time to set our clocks ahead. It must be spring.
It seems like just weeks ago I was busy "falling back" our clocks and watches and now it's time to move them ahead again. It also means one less hour this weekend. Darn I hate to lose those precious minutes.
When I was in high school in Deer Lodge, Mont., way back in the 1960s, I remember a somewhat odd experience with Daylight Saving Time (Note, the correct expression is "Saving Time" not "Savings Time".)
At that time the entire state of Montana moved their clocks forward one hour in the summer.except for the city of Butte. As I recall it has something to do with the miners and work schedules. I'm sure it was what the Anaconda Company wanted. They owned all the copper mines, the massive copper smelter and seemed to control all the surrounding little towns.
I lived 35 miles from Butte and it was the "big city" we went to. It created some odd timing situations, however. For example, if I had a date and we were going to a 7 p.m. movie in Butte. I could pick her up at 7 p.m. in Deer Lodge, drive to Butte and still be there in plenty of time. Coming home was just the opposite. If my date had to be home by midnight I would have to leave Butte by 10:30 to get her straight home by midnight (that's one-half hour for the drive and one hour for the time change).
Needless-to-say, life was complicated living next to a different time zone. Going out with girls from Butte, was an entirely different story.
In the U.S. and its territories, Daylight Saving Time is not observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Eastern Time Zone portion of Indiana and the state of Arizona (except the Navajo Indian Reservation). The Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy due to its large size and location in three states.
But Indiana sounds like the really confusing place to live. There are actually three different time arrangements in that state:
1. 77 counties (including state capital Indianapolis) are in the Eastern Time Zone but do not change to Daylight time in April; instead they remain on Standard Time all year long.
2. 10 counties -- five near Chicago, IL, and five near Evansville, IN, are in the Central Time Zone and use both Central Standard and Central Daylight.
3. Five other counties -- two near Cincinnati, OH, and three near Louisville, KY -- are in the Eastern Time Zone but use both Eastern Standard and Eastern Daylight.
Depending on where you are in Indiana it could be 11 am, noon or 1 pm at the same time.
Fire departments have latched onto the spring time changes to push for another change. The Prineville Fire Department recommends this weekend be the time you change the battery in your smoke detectors. It makes good sense because smoke detectors work and they save lives, but they won't work when they don't have a worn-out or missing battery.
So let's review: move your clocks ahead by one hour some time on Sunday, or Saturday night. and replace the batteries in your smoke detectors.even if you did it last year. You don't get a second chance! |
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