American clocks have to be twisted forward one hour on Sunday March 13.
See https://www.universalworkshop.com/clock-shifting-times/
for much information on this “daylight shifting” time, and my opinion, which is that it is mad as a March hare.
The poor little hare of the sky, the constellation Lepus. is forever about to be caught by Orion’s hunting dog, Canis Major.
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In this detail from our Map of the Starry Sky, you can see that Lepus is one of the constellations fairly convincingly outlined by its stars, though they are dim compared with brilliant Orion who seems to tread on the hare. The Arabic word arnab is preserved in the name of the central and brightest star, Arnab or Alpha Leporis, of magnitude 2.6.
The hare had better make a “spring forward,” as you do with your clock.
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Today a bill passed in the US Senate, unanimously I might add, that will make Daylight Saving Time year round here.
I’m counting down to the end of daylight saving, and a return of daylight to the early mornings. Only 3 more weeks to go. Can’t wait!
Are you moving to Hawaii or Arizona in 3 weeks?
No. Daylight saving time in Australia, in those states where it’s observed, ends on the first Sunday in April.
Robert, for clarity, is it correct to say that in Aoril for Australia summer ends and clocks return closer to mean solar time?
Yes. With the end of summer and the advent of autumn, daylight saving time finishes and we return to standard time i.e. clocks in my neck of the woods (eastern Australia: NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS) are put back an hour from Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (GMT+11) to Australian Eastern Standard Time (GMT+10).