Top 5 Stories of the Week (Mar 3-9, 2008)

4. Time Change causes havoc once again between San Diego and Tijuana.

3. No number 3. Too busy watching reruns of Star Trek on channel 49.

2. The WB to relaunch as a place to watch old WB-produced shows.

1. Silly chick heads have taken over the Target store. Chick heads, chick heads, roly poly chick heads, chick heads, chick heads, eat them up, yum. Yeah!

Daylight Saving Time Begins Sunday (at 2am[3am] Mar 9, 2008)

Started in 2007, daylight time now begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. On the second Sunday in March, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time.

On the first Sunday in November, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time. So when you set your clocks back one hour, you get two hours of the 1am hour.

In 2009, daylight time begins on March 8 and ends on November 1.

Many other countries observe some form of "summer time", but they do not necessarily change their clocks on the same dates as the U.S.

Mexico (except Sonora) observes Daylight Saving time from the first Sunday in April through the last Sunday in October, meaning beginning this Sunday, there will be four weeks that the U.S. will be one hour faster than Mexico until April the 6th. In addition, there is one more week of the one-hour fast between the two countries from October 26 though November 2.

Also observing DST from the second Sunday in Marth through the first Sunday in November are Canada (excluding Saskatchewan and parts of Quebec, B.C., and Ontario), Bermuda, St. Johns, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos.

The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.

Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Because of this, it would be more accurate to refer to DST as daylight-saving time. Similar examples would be a mind-expanding book or a man-eating tiger. Saving is used in the same way as saving a ball game, rather than as a savings account.

In the U.S., clocks change at 2:00 a.m. local time. In spring, clocks spring forward from 1:59 a.m. to 3:00 a.m.; in fall, clocks fall back from 1:59 a.m. to 1:00 a.m.

Not all places in the U.S. observe daylight time. For the U.S. and its territories, Daylight Saving Time is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and Arizona. The Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, even in Arizona, due to its large size and location in three states.

Padres Spring Training Shifts Times (on Mar 9, 2008)

If you live in Tijuana, most of the games will be at 12:05 because Mexico won't shift the start of Daylight time.

If you live in Arizona, you don't change your clocks at all. The reason is because it costs more money to run air conditioners in Arizona in the the hot summertime if it were on daylight time than standard time, so that the hot sun doesn't set an hour later.