About this product: 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 policy makers. Daylight savings time 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.
About this product: This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on October 28, 2006. The length of the article is 474 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: In 2007, daylight-saving time to give off more light.(General News) Author: Gale Reference Team Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper) Date: October 28, 2006 Publisher: Thomson Gale Page: D1
About this product: This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on April 3, 2005. The length of the article is 800 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: Daylight-saving time a good idea - in 1784.(General News) Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper) Date: April 3, 2005 Publisher: The Register Guard Page: L1
About this product: 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.
About this product: This digital document is an article from SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico, published by Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute on September 19, 2001. The length of the article is 1026 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST FEDERAL DECISION TO IMPOSE DAYLIGHT-SAVING TIME IN MEXICO CITY. Publication:SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico (Magazine/Journal) Date: September 19, 2001 Publisher: Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute Page: NA
About this product: This digital document is an article from Indiana Business Magazine, published by Curtis Magazine Group, Inc. on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3297 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: It's about time: how not adopting Daylight Saving Time needlessly hurts Indiana's business and the state's image. (Cover Story). Author: Steve Kaelble Publication:Indiana Business Magazine (Magazine/Journal) Date: March 1, 2003 Publisher: Curtis Magazine Group, Inc. Volume: 47 Issue: 3 Page: 8(6)
About this product: This digital document is an article from Indiana Business Magazine, published by Curtis Magazine Group, Inc. on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 668 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: Time to end the debate on Daylight Saving Time. (Last Word).(Column) Author: Patrick M. Barkey Publication:Indiana Business Magazine (Magazine/Journal) Date: March 1, 2003 Publisher: Curtis Magazine Group, Inc. Volume: 47 Issue: 3 Page: 56(1)
About this product: This digital document is a journal article from Accident Analysis and Prevention, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Description: This paper analyzes the effects of daylight and daylight saving time (DST) on pedestrian and motor vehicle occupant fatalities in the United States. Multivariate analyses of county level data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System for 2-week periods in 1998 and 1999 are used. Results show that full year daylight saving time would reduce pedestrian fatalities by 171 per year, or by 13% of all pedestrian fatalities in the 5:00-10.00 a.m. and in the 4:00-9:00 p.m. time periods. Motor vehicle occupant fatalities would be reduced by 195 per year, or 3%, during the same time periods.
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