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Daylight Savings Time - Incidents and Anecdotes
« on: March 10, 2018, 07:12:48 pm »
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Throughout its long and fascinating history, daylight saving time has had a remarkable impact on a wide variety of unexpected areas--from Middle East terrorism to feuding twin cities, voter turnout to time-change riots, radio stations to trick-or-treaters, and opera performances to manslaughter charges.

Draft Status, Vietnam War

A man, born just after 12:00 a.m. DST, circumvented the Vietnam War draft by using a daylight saving time loophole. When drafted, he argued that standard time, not DST, was the official time for recording births in his state of Delaware in the year of his birth. Thus, under official standard time he was actually born on the previous day--and that day had a much higher draft lottery number, allowing him to avoid the draft.

Bombing Thwarted

In September 1999, the West Bank was on Daylight Saving Time while Israel had just switched back to standard time. West Bank terrorists prepared time bombs and smuggled them to their Israeli counterparts, who misunderstood the time on the bombs. As the bombs were being planted, they exploded--one hour too early--killing three terrorists instead of the intended victims--two busloads of people.

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« Last Edit: March 10, 2018, 07:13:10 pm by 240B »
You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
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Re: Daylight Savings Time - Incidents and Anecdotes
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2018, 07:20:52 pm »
Draft Status, Vietnam War

A man, born just after 12:00 a.m. DST, circumvented the Vietnam War draft by using a daylight saving time loophole. When drafted, he argued that standard time, not DST, was the official time for recording births in his state of Delaware in the year of his birth. Thus, under official standard time he was actually born on the previous day--and that day had a much higher draft lottery number, allowing him to avoid the draft.

A trouble with using local time, not even daylight savings time, is illustrated nicely by the two babies born around the new year...

Adam was born in NY at 1 am Eastern Time, January 1, 2017. 
An hour later, Barbara was born in LA.

Barbara is legally a day older, despite being born later, as her birth was at 11 pm on December 31, 2016.
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