{"id":10357,"date":"2017-03-12T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T13:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10357"},"modified":"2017-03-12T09:12:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T13:12:46","slug":"4-scientific-and-not-so-scientific-things-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/4-scientific-and-not-so-scientific-things-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;4 Scientific (And Not So Scientific) Things To Know About Daylight Saving Time&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you wake up this morning already feeling behind? \u00a0The loss of an hour last night probably contributed to that. \u00a0Dr. Marshall Shepherd has an interesting post at <em>Forbes.com<\/em> today about Daylight Saving Time. \u00a0You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2017\/03\/11\/4-scientific-and-not-so-scientific-things-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time\/#651a370e3360\">here<\/a>. \u00a0I used to be more concerned about it when I worked in Wisconsin and was doing calculations of the effect of time change on weather observations (yes, they do need to be adjusted when you make long climate timelines, just like changes of station location and changes in instrument, such as from liquid in glass thermometers to electronic thermometers). \u00a0The best source of time change information, surprising or not, was astrologers, who are very careful to take account of time zones and time changes in their calculations of your celestial timeline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/sun-smile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8905\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/sun-smile-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/sun-smile-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/sun-smile-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/sun-smile.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you wake up this morning already feeling behind? \u00a0The loss of an hour last night probably contributed to that. \u00a0Dr. Marshall Shepherd has an interesting post at Forbes.com today about Daylight Saving Time. \u00a0You can read it here. \u00a0I used to be more concerned about it when I worked in Wisconsin and was doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":8905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10358,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions\/10358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}