Sunday, March 27, 2005

Daylight Saving Time

From today Europe has started the daylight Saving(not Savings) time while Australia ended it. USA about a week from it. This is going to be my fourth change ever since I came to the US of America. At this moment when I look back at the first change its been a peculiar experience - makes me wonder what exactly happens and how it works. Having lived so close to equator, a time change has always been only in the books.

Though the clocks are set or reset, the body clock takes some time to adjust. Guilty am I going to be for sleeping late in the weeks to follow.But people in 70 countries accomdate themselves and USA saves about 300,000 barrels of oil during the month of April. A little history in to this change from the days of Benjamin Franklin......

Just as sunflowers turn their heads to catch every sunbeam, so too have we discovered a simple way to get more from our sun.

We've learned to save energy and enjoy sunny summer evenings by switching our clocks an hour forward in the summer.....

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