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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

March 5, 2014

Justin: Welcome to MPA’s Tech Table. I’m Justin.

Diana: And I’m Diana.

Justin: And we’re your hosts. We’ll be serving up a heaping spoonful of all things tech.

Diana: We promise, it will be easy to digest. Well, happy Wednesday, Justin.

Justin: Happy Wednesday, Diana. How are you?

Diana: I am doing pretty well. I’m a little tired today.

Justin: Feeling good on this Tech Table Web Wednesday.

Diana: Web Wednesday Tech Table.

Justin: It is Web Wednesday. And today, you know, Daylight Savings time is coming up.

Diana: Mm-hm.

Justin: It’s an exciting thing.

Diana: True.

Justin: It actually is not that exciting.

Diana: No. Because spring forward you lose sleep.

Justin: You do.

Diana: And I’m already tired.

Justin: So, you know, you were correcting me before we went on about the fact that everyone says it’s Daylight Savings Time.

Diana: Sure.

Justin: But it’s actually Daylight Saving Time. That’s technically what it is called.

Diana: Evidently that is what it’s called. You know, we’ve looked at the web because it is Web Wednesday.

Justin: It is Web Wednesday.

Diana: And we’ve found some very interesting facts just by doing some simple searches. So, that is one of them. It’s actually called Daylight Saving Time.

Justin: Daylight Saving Time, which I think makes more sense.

Diana: Yeah.

Justin: Probably.

Diana: Yeah, so when does it start, Justin?

Justin: What? This year?

Diana: Yeah. What’s the date?

Justin: It starts Sunday March 9th.

Diana: Whoo. That is coming up.

Justin: Yeah, exactly. You know, and we always spring forward and fall back. You know, that’s how you remember that.

Diana: Yeah.

Justin: Because I always used to get really confused and have no idea. When I was a bachelor before you came along, my dear, I had to call my mom. “Mom, what’s going on? Is it-, what hour is it?”

Diana: Well, hopefully you didn’t call her at 2 a.m.

Justin: No, I didn’t. But I would-, actually I think she would call me the night before and say, “Okay, now.”

Diana: Make sure.

Justin: Make sure you do this. This is what you’re doing because I always had no idea.

Diana: Yeah, because most people set their clock ahead or behind before they go to bed then on Saturday night. Yeah.

Justin: Right. So, where did this come from? Where did Daylight Saving time come from? Like you said, you did some web research.

Diana: Yeah, well the first American to advocate for Daylight Saving time was Benjamin Franklin.

Justin: Oh, good ol’ Benjamin Franklin.

Diana: Recognize that name?

Justin: Yup. Mm-hm.

Diana: He realized in the great year of 1784 that many people burned candles at night, yet slept past dawn in the summer, which wasted early morning sunlight.

Justin: That’s interesting. See I always thought it was a farmer thing. I always thought people said it was because of farmers. Like, something, you know, that kind of plays into that, but apparently, it really isn’t anything having to do with the farming culture.

Diana: He was just a real smart guy.

Justin: It was just Ben Franklin.

Diana: Yup. Yup.

Justin: Being smart like always.

Diana: So then through 2006, Daylight Saving time in the U.S. ended a few days before Halloween, but there were some fatalities, unfortunately, with children trick or treating, and they adjusted the Daylight Saving time.

Justin: Right. I remember that.

Diana: Yeah. Yeah. To extend to the first Sunday in November. So, that took effect in 2007.

Justin: It’s really interesting.

Diana: Isn’t it?

Justin: It’s really interesting.

Diana: Look at these facts.

Justin: Yeah. Yeah. I’m also reading here that twins born at 11:55 pm and 12:05 am may have different birthdays. Daylight Savings Time can change birth order on paper. So, during the time change in fall, one baby could be born at 1:55 and the sibling born 10 minutes later at 1:05 am in spring. Oh my goodness. This is so confusing. There’s a gap where no babies are born at all from 2 am to 3 am.

Diana: Crazy, right?

Justin: It is. It’s so confusing. It’s just like time zones, you know? I was discussing how it’s confusing, you know, think about if you-, I mean we live in a state where the whole state is in one time zone. Can you imagine if the next county over was actually a different zone?

Diana: No. No.

Justin: Or was actually a different time zone?

Diana: No. No.

Justin: Or even the next farm or the next town over was in a different time zone, and like, you went to the doctor in a different time zone and just how just confusing.

Diana: Yeah.

Justin: I mean I suppose you’d get used to it, but I almost think that we all should have just one.

Diana: Just deal with it.

Justin: Yeah. That would be nice. But it’s not gonna happen that way.

Diana: Nope.

Justin: Well, there’s a little bit about Daylight Saving time. You can check out more by Googling Daylight Saving Time. Until next time.

Diana: Take care.

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Justin: And thanks for listening.