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Old 03-15-2010, 08:11 AM   #4
Shawnee123
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Originally Posted by tw View Post
Technology is not the problem. The problem was Congress that simply changed the 'time change' date. Then technology does not change times properly for two weeks.

Worse, the Congress that made that change did so for political reasons - not for any reason based in science.
I guess that's why I doubted my clocks: since it was moved up I didn't know if my clocks would "know." Someone must have told them, because they updated just fine.

I'm curious, though, what were the political reasons? I think DST started for the farmers, right? Well, that's what I've heard though I don't know why that would be either...farmers run their big machines all night around these parts.
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