Daylight Saving Time
Now that Daylight Saving Time is changing the second Sunday in March at 2:00am and revert back on the first Sunday in November, I wondered why we even observe this at all. What happened to REGULAR time?
Daylight Saving was originally started in 1966 when most of the United States observed Daylight Saving Time from the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. The main idea was to make better use of daylight so that during the summer we move one hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. Also, it does save energy by decreasing the electricity usage by a small amount (about 1% per day).
Some people, however, intensely dislike DST. They argue that the sleep patterns take time to adjust and there has been some evidence that the severity of auto accidents increases and work productivity decreases as people adjust. And since we are up later in the evening, the energy used to cool homes in warm areas could increase energy costs.
DST was first introduced in 1918 during WWI, but was later repealed in 1919 due to its unpopularity. It was then reintroduced in 1942 to 1945, year-round and was called “War Time.” Each state could choose to implement DST or not and also choose when it began and ended. This caused great confusion.
The following states and territories DO NOT observe DST: Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Arizona does also not observe DST, but the Navajo Nation does.
As for me, I hate it in the Spring and love it in the Fall. Just because of sleep reasons!
BTW – The official name is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight Savings Time)
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played the “normal” daughter on The Munsters. Pat was born in 1936 in Utah. Her mother, Ivy Baker Priest was US Treasurer for Eisenhower and California’s Treasurer for Regan when he was Governor. In the 1950s she won a beauty contest in Washington DC and then moved to California to pursue an acting career. She was discovered because she looked so much like the original Munsters Marilyn, Beverly Owen who was quiting the show. Pat signed on and was on the show for 57 episodes.
Patrick did make several other appearances in television shows in the 60s including Mister Ed and Gunsmoke, as well as eight episodes of My Three Sons.
He was born April 30, 1923 in New York and started his acting career as a circus performer in the late 1920s. Many facts about his life are not well documented. He claimed to earn a college degree in 1941 from Columbia University, but the University has no record of this. His acting career is better documented – he started working in burlesque and vaudeville in the 40s and later worked on Broadway in the 50s.
In 1998 he decided to run for Governor of New York for the Green Party. He wanted to be listed on the ballot as “Grandpa Al Lewis” but this was rejected by the courts. He received a total of 52,533 votes which was more than the minimum of 50,000 votes needed to give the Green Party an automatic ballot line for the next four years.
will always be best remembered for his role as Herman Munster on the TV show The Munsters. However, he had numerous other memorable roles as well.
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is probably best known for her role as Lily Munster
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The Munsters was a sitcom that ran from 1964-1966 for a total of 72 episodes. I remembering watching the show after school in the 70s when it was in syndication. The black and white series concerned a family of “monsters” that lived in a average American neighborhood. The Munsters interacted with the community and had no idea that they were different.

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