Daylight Savings Ends This Weekend

Don't forget to turn your clocks back one hour this weekend!  Daylight Savings Time ends at 2:00 AM Sunday morning, October 29 here in the USA, and we "fall back" to Standard Time until we "spring forward" again next Spring.

Some may not see how this is an astronomy-related topic, but Daylight Savings is adopted because of the seasonal changes in the length of daylight.  This is a direct result of the Earth's revolution around the Sun, which we learn about from Classical Astronomy!

In recent years, Standard Time has been resuming later and later in the month of October.  Years ago, we fell back on the first or second Sunday of October, and sprang forward in about mid-April.  But according to this Yahoo story, this is the last time that we will fall back in October:

Thanks to a law passed last year, daylight-saving time will start earlier and end later beginning in 2007. It will last from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.

Many people think this is progress, and perhaps it is.  But with Daylight Savings, the Sun now longer reaches the middle of the sky at Noon.  It's just another way that our culture has become removed from the Two Great Lights that the LORD has placed in the sky for us to tell time (Gen. 1:14). 

Wow

2:18 AM, Friday, October 27, 2006
Posted by heartmatters

I noticed it was getting later in the year, but why? I don't get it.
astronomically challenged in astronomy,
Jen at h.m.