Daylight Saving Time (or summertime as it is called in many countries) is a way of getting more light out of the day by advancing clocks by one hour during the summer. Throughout history there have been several variants such as half adjustment (30 minutes) or double adjustment (two hours), and adjustments of 20 and 40 minutes have also been used. A two-hour adjustment was used in several countries during the 1940s and elsewhere at times. A half adjustment was sometimes used in New Zealand in the first half of the 20th century. Sometimes DST is used for a longer period than just the summer, as it was in the United States during World War II. From February 3, 1942 to September 30, 1945 most of the United States had DST all year; it was called 'War Time'.

WAR TIME!

I had never thought of it like that.

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A couple of years ago we needed some more chairs, soon after deciding this I started to see chairs in the street. Quality was variable but after a couple of months we had all we needed - upgrading along the way as better ones emerged. Once we had enough there was suddenly no more chairs, it seemed as if we had got in there in time.

Last month friends in Newcastle mentioned they were on the hunt for chairs. Suddenly they seem to be in full bloom again. Funny that.

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