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Originally Posted by Pariah
Thanks.
Seems you're always on MST (mountain STANDARD time)? I'm currently in MDT.
One other question: when AZ qualifies it's time (today), does it put PST (cali time) or MST (colo time before the time change)?
Arizona is always MST. We are MST now and will be MST in six months. See how simple that is? I can not understand why anyone and just about everyone else would want to complicate the time of day.
Arizona is always MST. We are MST now and will be MST in six months. See how simple that is? I can not understand why anyone and just about everyone else would want to complicate the time of day.
It's rooted in a time before we were industrialized. It allowed for kids to go to scholl AND work on the farm.
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Seems you're right. Franklin thought of it to save oil and candles.
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The Parisians never woke before noon
Franklin had eventually bedded down at three or four hours past midnight but was awakened at six in the morning by a sudden noise. Surprised to find his room filled with light, Franklin at first imagined that a number of the new oil lamps were the source, but he soon perceived the light to be originating from the outside. Looking out the window, Franklin saw the sun rising above the horizon, its rays pouring through the open shutters.
"I looked at my watch, which goes very well, and found that it was but six o clock; and still thinking it something extraordinary that the sun should rise so early, I looked into the almanac, where I found it to be the hour given for his rising on that day. I looked forward too, and found he was to rise still earlier every day towards the end of June; and that no time during the year he retarded his rising so long as till eight o clock. Your readers, who with me have never seen any sign of sunshine before noon, and seldom regard the astronomical part of the almanac, will be as much astonished as I was, when they hear of his rising so early; and especially when I assure them, that he gives light as soon as he rises. I am convinced of this.
Sly Franklin claimed that a noted philosopher assured him that he was most certainly mistaken, for it was well known that "there could be no light abroad at that hour." His windows had not let the light in, but being open, had let the darkness out.
"This event has given rise in my mind to several serious and important reflections," the letter continued. Had he not been aroused at so early a morning hour, he would have slept until noon through six hours of daylight and therefore, living six hours the following night by candlelight. Realizing the latter was much more expensive than the former, he began calculating, for the sheer love of economy, the utility of his discovery -- the true test of any invention.
On the assumption that 100,000 Parisian families burned half a pound of candles per hour for an average of seven hours per day (the average time for the summer months between dusk and the supposed bedtime of Parisians), the account would stand thus:
"183 nights between 20 March and 20 September times 7 hours per night of candle usage equals 1,281 hours for a half year of candle usage. Multiplying by 100,000 families gives 128,100,000 hours by candlelight. Each candle requires half a pound of tallow and wax, thus a total of 64,050,000 pounds. At a price of thirty sols per pounds of tallow and wax (two hundred sols make one livre tournois), the total sum comes to 96,075,000 livre tournois.
"An immense sum," the astonished Franklin concluded, "that the city of Paris might save every year."
In fact, I've found some things that indicate farmers were/are opposed to the time change.
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Time is relative, changing the time on our clocks is not necessary, all we do is start work and go to bed earlier or later.
Many people in construction do that in AZ without having to adjust clocks.
I would guess the working public uses their work's start time to base their bed time off of, it must have been easier for the government to change the time on a clock than to just say "everyone start work earlier in the summer".
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