Daylight Saving And Standard Time For The United States

Author : David Prerau
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 078673695X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seize the Daylight written by David Prerau and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it, and more recently the United States fought an energy crisis with it. For several months every year, for better or worse, daylight savings time affects vast numbers of people throughout the world. And from Ben Franklin's era to today, its story has been an intriguing and sometimes-bizarre amalgam of colorful personalities and serious technical issues, purported costs and perceived benefits, conflicts between interest groups and government policymakers. It impacts diverse and unexpected areas, including agricultural practices, street crime, the reporting of sports scores, traffic accidents, the inheritance rights of twins, and voter turnout. Illustrated with a popular look at science and history, Seize the Daylight presents an intriguing and surprisingly entertaining story of our attempt to regulate the sunlight hours.

Author : Michael Downing
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1582434956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spring Forward written by Michael Downing and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, the loopy idea that became the most persistent political controversy in American history. Almost one hundred years after Congressmen and lawmakers in every state first debated, ridiculed, and then passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour of daylight, no one can say for sure why we are required by law to change our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme? The most authoritative sources agree it was a Pittsburgh industrialist, Woodrow Wilson, a man on a horse in London, a Manhattan socialite, Benjamin Franklin, one of the Caesars, or the anonymous makers of ancient Chinese and Japanese water clocks. Spring Forward is a portrait of public policy in the 20th century, a perennially boiling cauldron of unsubstantiated science, profiteering masked as piety, and mysteriously shifting time–zone boundaries. It is a true–to–life social comedy with Congress in the leading role, surrounded by a supporting cast of opportunistic ministers, movie moguls, stockbrokers, labor leaders, sports fanatics, and railroad execs.

Author : United States. Department of Transportation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Daylight Saving Time Study: Final report on the operation and effects of daylight saving time written by United States. Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Department of Transportation. Office of Assistant General Counsel for Regulation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Standard Time in the United States written by United States. Department of Transportation. Office of Assistant General Counsel for Regulation and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.XV/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daylight Saving and Standard Time for the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Com. on interstate commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daylight Saving and Standard Time for the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Com. on interstate commerce and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daylight Savings Time Act of 1976 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vanessa Ogle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674737024
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Transformation of Time written by Vanessa Ogle and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uniform Time Act of 1966 and Other Related Acts and Background Information for Committee Consideration of H.R. 13089 and Similar Bills Relating to Daylight Saving Time written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian R. Bartky
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804756426
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Time Fits All written by Ian R. Bartky and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Time Fits All tells the story of the development, integration, and obstacles overcome in setting an the International Date Line, establishing the worldwide system of Standard Time zones, and adopting Daylight Saving Time—including their global impacts on how the general public keeps time today.