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| Daylight Savings Time is carried out in the states that are colored. |
Killing two birds with one stone, or
as I'd like to say, diving into two topics in one article. Here are
two of the most frequently asked questions by me: Why do we have a
leap year? How is daylight saving time important? So I'm going to
discuss those two topics.
Leap year happens every four years.
This when February gets that extra day, making it twenty nine days
instead of twenty eight. So why do we have Leap Year? Easy...well, not
really. Let's start off with the main point: if we didn't have leap
year...well, we would lose six hours off our calender each year. That
means by one hundred years, we'd be off by twenty four days! Our
calender has to be aligned with the Earth's revolutions around the
sun, which has it's complete rotation, every 365 days, 5 hours, 48
minutes, and 46 seconds. It's because our calender is set up with the
Gregorian calender (has only 365 days), that we have to add an extra
day to keep the balance of day and time in check. Well, leap year
won't back until 2016 because last leap year was in 2012, but it's
hard not to be a little anxious for it to arrive.
Daylight savings time is that
wonderful time of the year, where we all set our clocks forward or
backwards an hour. Daylight savings “tittle” is literally the
purpose for changing our clocks. It's to save or use our daylight
better by moving one hour of the morning to the evening. Funny how
that came to pass. It just added another hour at night when we are
more awake. Well that's all for today folks, tune in next time for
more interesting facts on the world we know today.
Written by: Lizzy the Lizard
Photographer: Daniel P. Smithwater
Edited by: Christian
Ryan, Joy Hammond and Mr. Smiley
Weekly Cartoons
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