US Time switch saves energy

The US has switched to Daylight Savings Time three weeks early in an effort to save energy.
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Baby beats biological clock

A Nottingham woman has just given birth after a new fertility test revealed her biological clock was ticking away.
Test results showed that Joanne Morgan needed to start her family earlier than she had planned. Steve Beech reports.

Watch the BBC news report here.

What time is it?

1. Sundial clock



2. Water clock

How many different kinds of clocks are you familiar with? How have human beings measured time? Why is timekeeping so important for people? What do you know about Daylight Saving Time? What are Time Zones?

You may have asked yourself these questions, but you may not have had the opportunity to find the answers.

Now is your chance to do that. It's time to learn about Time.

Choose one of the following tasks, do it, and share your thoughts with the readers of this blog.

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Daylight Saving Time?

Check the following two sites:

a) Daylight savings time

b) Daylight saving time ( From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )

Open a new Word page, create a two-colmun table and fill each column with the advantages and disadvantages of Daylight Saving Time.

Finally, Click on the "comment" word under this post, choose the most important advantage and the most important disadvantge, copy and paste them into the comment box that opened up, and explain why you have chosen them as the most important ones.

2. "Google" the word clock to find pictures of different kinds of clocks. Choose the two different types of clocks you like best, describe them and explain why you like them. Write the link to the site where each of these clocks appear so that your readers can see them.