International Services for Students and Scholars (ISSS)
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
Serving the International Students/Scholars at Rensselaer
Volume 15, Issue 9 Date:March 31, 2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Daylight Savings Time – what is it?
Tax Deadline
Daylight Savings Time – what is it?
Spring forward…..fall back.
Saturday night before you go to bed move your clocks ahead one hour. Yes, this
means you are losing one hour of sleep!
Daylight-saving time is when we turn the clocks forward one hour from standard
time in order to save energy. During the long days of spring and summer, we are
awake during daylight and use less electricity. This idea of daylight-saving time
has been around a long time, but was widely instituted in the USA in 1966. There
are still areas where they do not observe daylight-saving time, like Hawaii, parts
of Indiana and most of Arizona. If your area uses daylight-saving time, the clocks
should be set forward one hour the first Sunday of April at 2:00am. Many countries
around the world utilize daylight-saving time, each to its best advantage. The
change back to standard time occurs the last Sunday in October.
Tax Deadline
If you have worked and received money in the year 2004, then your taxes must
be post-marked by April 15, 2005.
If you have not worked and not received any money you must fill out Form 8843
and it must be post-marked by June 15, 2005.
Staff in the ISSS Office is not able to answer questions regarding Taxes. If
you have questions you can email Jane and she will forward the question to the
tax official that gave the workshop on our campus.
