Day Light Savings Time

Here is a little quiz about Daylight Savings Time. 
Click the box for the answers and then highlight the hidden 
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Why do we have daylight-saving time, anyway?quiz_icon02.gif
To save energy.
  To prevent jet lag for summer travelers.
  To make up for the day we gain in leap year.
 

->>Daylight-saving time was started during World War I 
to save oil and other energy resources needed for the war. 
It was used again in WWII, then became a law in 1966. Only 
a few states and regions don't follow it. We start Daylight
 Saving Time at 2 a.m., the first Sunday in April, and go 
back to Standard Time on the last Sunday in October. With 
an extra hour of daylight after dinner in the summer, people 
don't need to use their lights as long, so they waste less 
electricity and that saves energy. In 2005 Bush passed his so 
called Energy act by extending Daylight saving Time. There Is
considerable doubt that any energy is actually saved due to 
the already short days in fall and spring and the long days 
in summer aren't actually effected by shifting time. <<--
On the Fourth of July, if it's 3 p.m. in New York City, what time is it in 
Phoenix, Arizona? (Be careful, it's a trick question!)quiz_icon02.gif

 
1 p.m.
  5 p.m.
  Noon.
-->> New York is in the Eastern Time Zone. Next comes Central Time, then 
Mountain, then Pacific. Each one is one hour earlier than the one before. 
Arizona is in Mountain Time so it should be 1 p.m. But, remember, this is a 
trick question. July falls during Daylight Saving Time (April to October). 
Arizona is one of the few U.S. states or regions (along with Hawaii, eastern 
Indiana, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa) that do not 
follow Daylight Saving Time. Therefore, it would be noon in Phoenix. They didn't 
"spring ahead!" <--

 
Some people want the first day of daylight-saving time to be set aside as 
National Nap Day. Why would we need that?

We'd be tired from the hour of sleep we lost.
	We'd be groggy from the extra hour of sleep we gained.
-->>April, we "spring ahead" and lose an hour while we 
sleep. The hour between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. doesn't exist that night!  <<--

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Who first divided hours into 60 minutes and minutes into 60 seconds?
Leonardo DaVinci.
  The Egyptians.
  The Babylonians.
-->>The Babylonians were the ones to divide up the hour by 60. 
They used the base-60 system (called sexagesimal) for their astronomy. 
Since 60 can be divided 
by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10, it simplifies large 
calculations. That made it a 
reasonable choice to divide up the parts 
of the hour as well. <<--

What is the study of time measurement called?quiz_icon02.gif
	Seconding.
	Minutia.
	Horology. 
 -->> From hora, the Greek word for time, horology is the 
science of time measurement.<<--
 
 
For a good site with lots of information about daylight
Saving Time Try

Daylight
Saving Time