In 2007, daylight-saving time to give off more light.Byline: Andrea Damewood The Register-Guard Enjoy the creepy creep·y adj. creep·i·er, creep·i·est Informal 1. Of or producing a sensation of uneasiness or fear, as of things crawling on one's skin: a creepy feeling; a creepy story. 2. darkness this fall, because come Halloween next year, the kiddies will get a bit less bewitching be·witch tr.v. be·witched, be·witch·ing, be·witch·es 1. To place under one's power by or as if by magic; cast a spell over. 2. To captivate completely; entrance. See Synonyms at charm. darkness. Next year, the sun will set about 6 p.m. on that spookiest of days; this year, it'll be sometime around 5 p.m. Never fear, it was an act of government, not God, but thanks to the Energy Act of 2005, Congress up and added a month to daylight-saving time. So, before you go to bed tonight, turn your clocks back one hour, and say good night to the old daylight-saving time schedule. Like something out of a sci-fi movie, clocks in '07 magically will change over to daylight-saving time three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March instead of the first Sunday in April, and change back to standard time one week later, on the first Sunday in November instead of the last Sunday in October. But doomsday cultists won't have too much to yell about; the scientific community has assured us that the change will not make the Earth fall off its axis, nor create a rift in the space-time continuum. "Everybody will just be more confused in the spring," said Stan STAN Stanchion STAN Stärke- und Ausrüstungsnachweis (German) Stan Standard Man (human patient simulator) STAN SEMCIP Technical Assistance Network STAN System Trace Audit Number STAN Star Trek Area Network Michlavzina, a physics professor at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. . "The ants, the birds, the Birds, The Hitchcock film in which birds turn on the human race and terrorize a town. [Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 51] See : Birds bees, the lions, won't even know the difference. Asteroids This is a list of numbered minor planets, nearly all of them asteroids, in sequential order. As of late September 2007 there are 164,612 numbered minor planets, and many more not yet numbered. Most asteroids are ordinary and not particularly noteworthy. will keep flying." A 1970s study that said daylight-saving time saved as much as 10,000 barrels of oil a day in early spring - the more daylight in the evening, the less likely people will be holed up indoors, watching TV and burning kilowatts of energy. Officials do admit the data is way out of date, and other critics say the energy saved won't be worth the time wasted fixing airline schedules and the billions of electronic devices programmed for the daylight-saving time we've been using since 1986. Like it or not, come March 11, temperatures may still be brisk Brisk as a proper name may refer to:
Jeanne Staton, president of Staton Companies, which does demolition, thinks it's great her crews will have an extra hour to knock stuff down. "I'm sure we will appreciate it," she said. "It's no fun to work in the dark. It will be safer, and that's a good thing." Physicist Michlavzina said he's got an idea that would've side-stepped the whole bureaucratic bu·reau·crat n. 1. An official of a bureaucracy. 2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure. bu debacle: "If they just would have taken the average, and moved it a half hour back one time, we'd never have to do it again." |
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