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  • Daylight Saving Time 101

    From mynorthwest.com

    You're going to hear it all day. "Don't forget to set your clocks back." Daylight Saving Time ends early Sunday morning, which means we all get an extra hour of sleep Saturday night. But how did this annual messing with the clocks get started and why? There are a lot of myths about its origins. Benjamin Franklin is often credited with first proposing the idea of moving our clocks to give us more sunlight in the evening during the summer months. It was an off-handed and somewhat satirical comment in an essay he wrote in Paris in 1784. The idea didn't really go anywhere for about 100 years until an ... (full story)

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The Rhodie
Nov 1, 2013 1:16pm
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Very funny. Made me laugh. Of all the stories to share in the forums this got picked, and it made me laugh. Timing is very important on the trading systems and the clocks changing all the time make it very awkward for us. Every broker should base their systems on UTC/GMT. At least te systems and apps would work properly between platforms and brokers more easily. I hate having to recode someone's work because of a change in broker or season.
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Trader#A286
Nov 1, 2013 2:16pm
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I reckon all trading and should operate on CAT (Central African Time) which has no daylight saving so I never reset my watch unless travelling abroad. A whole lot of importance is (correctly) attached to London open and New York open. Why take an extra hour to open in the winter cos it's too frigging cold in the morning? Go live somewhere else with a better climate.
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Acroix70
Nov 1, 2013 3:03pm
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Oy VeY!!!
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