Time

by Kathy K McClellan

Title

Time

Artist

Kathy K McClellan

Medium

Digital Art - Photographs

Description

Time by Kathy K. McClellan is an image created for Day 72 of the Journal 2022 Challenge.

My journal entries for March make up a series titled "From Letters to Words" using the letters that were created for the February entries.

This journal entry is being created on March 13, 2022. At precisely 2:00 AM Standard Daylight Time (or Winter Time) our clocks advanced one hour to Daylight Saving Time (or Summer Time). Our clocks will fall back one hour in November. Our time will "Spring Forward and Fall Back".

This practice has a very interesting and confusing history. The first clocks were sundials which relied on the sun to tell the hours in a day and called solar time. The Ancient Romans had water clocks and clocks were a different size for each month to make up for the difference in the sun's movement throughout the year.

As world trade, travel and industry increased, it became important to have some type of Standardized Time. Greenwich Mean Time is the mean solar time in Greenwich, London England at the Royal Observatory. Universal Time is used to denote GMT starting at midnight. Time zones in most of Europe and the United States are based on distance from the prime meridian at Greenwich.

Although Germany is credited with introducing the first Saving Time change there were areas of Canada that used the hour difference in spring and fall years before.

In the United States Daylight Saving Time has had an on again, off again history, as well as a number of changes to law affecting the days that the DST would take effect.

As of 2022, in the United States DST starts on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November.

Many studies have been done to determine the true pros and cons. The conclusion is that DST wastes time and money and affects people's health negatively. In the U.S. many states have voted to use DST year round to try and negate those negative effects of adjusting clock times twice a year.

Even though the beginning and end dates differ, Daylight Saving Time is now used in over 70 countries worldwide and affects over one billion people every year.

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March 13th, 2022

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