Daylight Savings TIme 2011
Every year at this time, you are sure to hear someone ask- What does 'Daylight Savings time' save? It is a good question. It loses you an hour at least it feels that way the first day or so. As someone who leaves for work very early, it means that I may have to start my drive in the dark again like I do in December. WIKI Says: Although not punctual in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does, often dividing daylight into twelve hours regardless of day length, so that each daylight hour was longer during summer. For example, Roman water clocks had different scales for different months of the year: at Rome's latitude the third hour from sunrise, hora tertia, started by modern standards at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes. After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, sociv...