AP AUDIO: Why are clocks set forward in the spring? Thank wars, confusion and a hunger for sunlight. Spring forward! AP correspondent Jennifer King reports with a little of the history behind Daylight Saving Time. Glenda Marchesoni, owner of Heritage House Clocks, adjusts a German clock...
A. Sometimes we feel so tired that the biological clocks cannot always let us wake up before the alarm goes off.B. Special cells in our brains can be helpful for the preparation of waking up.C. Set more alarms in ...
We have been hearing every fall, and every spring for the past couple of years that the ritual of changing the clocks is about to go away. And yet this weekend we are ‘falling back’ once again. What’s the deal? Why hasn’t Daylight Saving Time, or Standard time gone away for good?
Considering Speakerboxxx/The Love Below consists of 40 different tracks and clocks in at nearly 135 minutes, it's surprising that Big Boi and André 3000 only relied on a handful of samples. And like their choice of collaborators, they're far from obvious, either. Who knew that The So...
When i was running win 8.1 and i clicked on the time it popped up with 3 clocks - all nice and pretty easy on the eye and all that. Now it pops up with the calendar uk time in large text and at the top in small text...
Although modern DST has only been used for about 100 years, ancient civilizations are known to have engaged in comparable practices thousands of years ago. For example, the Roman water clocks used different scales for different months of the year to adjust the daily schedules to thesolar time....
[samples of] fire alarms, horses galloping and sprinklers. There are some sounds like that for the transitions at the beginning. And then of course, there's the worst alarm [sound], your alarm clock when you wake up. I was like "How can I take these elements and then...
: Hi, I am trying to set the internet time sync frequency to every 10 minutes from the Special Poll Interval. However, it seems like a fixed frequency, no matter how much I put in the value, the frequency is every 17 mins. And I tried with the other computer, the frequency is......
Use a sunrise alarm clock to mimic natural light.Not all alarm clocks rely on the traditional loud, irritating sounds to get you out of bed. Sunrise alarms simulate natural daylight, give you asimilar effect to sunlight in the morningand stir up that morning serotonin boost. These can be ...
So yesterday I set several alarm clocks specifically to prevent missing out on this volunteer activity because it was very early. I didnt expect that none of them came in handy this morning - I woke up before they started making a fuss. I, who really didnt feel sleepy, couldnt help but ...