[CC] Daylight Savings Traditional Cache

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Cold Cache Crew: It's time to bring another year of the Cold Cache series to a close. The snow is finally gone (despite the Groundhog assuring us it would have been sooner) and this cache series is complete.

Remember: If you found all caches in the 2013 series [i]except[/i] "Queen Elizabeth", contact Bumble and he will grant permission to log that as a bonus find (so you can complete the series).

Bumble would like to thank the 2013 Cold Cache Crew members (bretina, MI Barrel Makers, TJPost, Addham, N8theGR811, and spartanalum) for all of their work on this series.

So long, farewell, until next year ...

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Hidden : 12/7/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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March 19 - Congress approved daylight-savings time in 1918

Daylight saving time (DST) is the practice of advancing clocks so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn.

Although not punctual in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does, often dividing daylight into twelve hours regardless of day length, so that each daylight hour was longer during summer.

Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, whose shift-work job gave him leisure time to collect insects, and led him to value after-hours daylight. In 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift, and after considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch, New Zealand, he followed up in an 1898 paper.

Starting on 30 April 1916, Germany and its World War I allies were the first to use DST (German: Sommerzeit) as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year and the United States adopted it in 1918. Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.

The theme for the 2013 Cold Cache series involves events in history that took place between January 1 and March 31 (which is the same timeframe that the Cold Cache series will be available).

Abraham Lincoln Public Museum Elvis Boy Scouts
Town Lights Underground Railroad John Glenn Girl Scouts
Daylight Savings Uranus Washington Monument First Movie
Super Bowl Navy Cotton Gin Queen Elizabeth I
Postage Stamps Panama Canal Nautilus Color TV
Oil Spill King Kong Challenger New Amsterdam
King Tut Bell Telephone Gold Rush Apollo 1
13th Amendment Iwo Jima 911 System Alcatraz
B&O Railroad MLK Ellis Island Alamo

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