Daylight Savings TIme

Turns out Arizona and Hawaii were right in choosing not to observe Daylight Savings Time! The news today says:

One less hour of sleep may not be the only side effect of Daylight Saving Time.
It turns out, turning your clock forward could be bad for your ticker.

Doctors in Sweden looked at the number of heart attacks during the days immediately following the clock change and compared them to the period two weeks before and two weeks after.

So, not only do we not have to worry about which way to set the clocks, and remember to get the right amount of sleep, we have one less thing to worry about! How's that for an easy heart healthy decision!

I've never really worried about changing times, having lived almost all of my life in places that don't observe Daylight Savings - Hawaii and Arizona. So it takes major thinking time to figure who's doing what when everywhere else.

Indiana has been mightily confused for a long time, with the state split into two time zones, Eastern and Central, plus having some counties observing DST and some staying on standard time throughout the year. That finally changed in April of 2005 when, after considerable debating, the State passed legislation placing the entire state into the DST system.

Wikipedia says "North America generally follows the same procedure, with each time zone switching at 02:00 LST (local standard time) to 03:00 LDT (local daylight time) on the second Sunday in March, and back from 02:00 LDT to 01:00 LST on the first Sunday in November since 2007. Previously, daylight saving time was four to five weeks shorter.

All I know and have to remember is that Arizona will be on California (Pacific) time today, rather than Mountain time. That's important only so I can watch my favorite TV shows instead of missing them by an hour!

Too much information about changing times internationally can be found at http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world .

Just remember to get to work on time tomorrow, wherever you might be!