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DAYLIGHT TIME SAVINGS

Today I was wondering about the daylight time savings and when would it begin, so I was reading many articles about the subject. But the Navy website included everything. It included the dates it begins and the date it ends, even a brief history about the subject.
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.php
Starting in 2007, daylight time begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. On the second Sunday in March, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time. On the first Sunday in November, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time. These dates were established by Congress in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. no. 109-58, 119 Stat 594 (2005).

Not all places in the U.S. observe daylight time. In particular, Hawaii and most of Arizona do not use it. Indiana adopted its use beginning in 2006.

•In 2006, daylight time begins on April 2 and ends on October 29.
•In 2007, daylight time begins on March 11 and ends on November 4. [New law goes into effect.]
•In 2008, daylight time begins on March 9 and ends on November 2.
•In 2009, daylight time begins on March 8 and ends on November 1.
Many other countries observe some form of "summer time", but they do not necessarily change their clocks on the same dates as the U.S.

Daylight time and time zones in the U.S. are defined in the U.S. Code, Title 15, Chapter 6, Sub chapter IX - Standard Time.

History of Daylight Time in the U.S.
Although standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads in 1883, it was not established in U.S. law until the Act of March 19, 1918, sometimes called the Standard Time Act. The act also established daylight saving time, a contentious idea then. Daylight saving time was repealed in 1919, but standard time in time zones remained in law. Daylight time became a local matter. It was re-established nationally early in World War II, and was continuously observed from 9 February 1942 to 30 September 1945. After the war its use varied among states and localities. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 provided standardization in the dates of beginning and end of daylight time in the U.S. but allowed for local exemptions from its observance. The act provided that daylight time begin on the last Sunday in April and end on the last Sunday in October, with the changeover to occur at 2 a.m. local time.

During the "energy crisis" years, Congress enacted earlier starting dates for daylight time. In 1974, daylight time began on 6 January and in 1975 it began on 23 February. After those two years the starting date reverted back to the last Sunday in April. In 1986, a law was passed that shifted the starting date of daylight time to the first Sunday in April, beginning in 1987. The ending date of daylight time was not subject to such changes, and remained the last Sunday in October. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed both the starting and ending dates. Beginning in 2007, daylight time starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.

For a very readable account of the history of standard and daylight time in the U.S., see

Ian R. Bartky and Elizabeth Harrison: "Standard and Daylight-saving Time", Scientific American, May 1979 (Vol. 240, No. 5), pp. 46-53.

Most Embarrassing moments

Here are some embarrassing moments stories I read at career builder website
Most Embarrassing moments
Several years ago, Miriam was a publicist and had a meeting with a client. While waiting in the lobby for the client to arrive, she struck up a conversation with the receptionist, who was wearing a flowing shirt.

"She told me she hated her job, she hated her bosses, she hated her co-workers, she hated everything about the place," Miriam says. "So I told her soothingly that I didn't think she'd be there much longer. She asked why and I said, 'Well, once the baby is born, won't you be taking maternity leave?' She said in a very injured tone, 'I'm not pregnant.'" Luckily, the client walked into the lobby at that moment and freed her from further embarrassment.

Attorney Anthony J. Colleluori's youthful ignorance gave him a red face and a lesson in doing a little research before making a comment. On the day he accepted his first professional job after graduating from law school, he spoke with the head of human resources. When he explained that first-year lawyers received four weeks of vacation, Colleluori informed him that two weeks would suffice. The HR representative explained that the vacation time was mandatory.

Colleluori told him, "'This is my first job as a lawyer and I need to work as much as I can. Besides I can't afford not to get paid for a month, even if I don't take it all at once. I am getting married next year.' That is when he informed me that the four weeks vacation was paid leave."

On occasion, when you do stop yourself from saying something stupid, your mind can't help but still think about what could have been. Just ask Susan B., who still remembers a near miss from several years ago when she was a library page.

"I forgot my shoes at home and had only my winter boots. My supervisor heard me complaining about my problem, and offered me a spare pair of her shoes -- ugly wooden clogs. What could I do?" she recalls. She wore the shoes so as not to appear ungrateful.

Later that afternoon, she was on a break chatting with a friend and lamenting the shoes. "[I said], 'Look at these shoes. Mrs. Strauss loaned them to me.' Just then I saw Mrs. Strauss poke her head through the staff room door and look at me, my feet extended, showing off her shoes. I'd been about to say how ugly they were, but instead said, 'Wasn't that nice of her?' I could feel the heat of embarrassment well up inside, and suspected she knew I'd made a nice recovery."

E-mistake
E-mail has made so much of daily life easier. In a brief moment, you can send a note to your friend overseas, look at pictures of your newborn niece and accidentally send a gossipy message to your entire department.

Eight years ago, Scott Stratten was talking to his wife about that day's performance review. He was a training manager and knew that his department often suffered most when budgets were slashed, so he warned her that he could be let go in a few hours. During the review he not only didn't get fired, but he also received a raise. Excited, he sent her an e-mail saying, "Honey, I pulled the wool over their eyes again! I gotta teach a course in BS! Not only did the idiots not fire me, they gave me a raise! Here's to doing even less this year!" He then mindlessly selected his supervisor as the message recipient.

"I nearly threw up," Stratten says. "I just sent this e-mail to the person I was mocking. I even did the 'I'll try and pinch the computer cable so the message won't get through' move, to no avail." He was then certain he was going to get fired, especially when he saw his boss coming toward him. "He poked his head into my cubicle, laughed and said, 'That was a good one, man!' and kept walking. I still get the sweats thinking about it."

Here are some other workplace gaffes that some workers would like stricken from the record:



John Knox of Fredericton, New Brunswick, was looking at the sales receipt of a young customer when he asked his boss, "Wilbur? Really? Who names their kid Wilbur?" His boss then asked him if he'd received his paycheck earlier that morning. When Knox looked at the check, he noticed the boss' middle initial was W., which stood for Wilbur, of course.

Anna Filipski of Chandler, Ariz. worked in a company that had two unisex, single-person restrooms. One day she walked in on a male colleague using the restroom. She screamed and ran down the hallway. He later apologized for not locking the door.

When she was a receptionist for a law firm, Heather Hefner would spend her free time reading gossip blogs. She had just entered the URL for a site that took awhile to load when a senior partner walked in and began chatting at her desk. He kept looking at her computer monitor, but she didn't want to draw attention to the gossip site, so she kept her focus on him. When he left, she turned back to the computer and saw a big picture of David Beckham wearing a white Speedo.