Meat - eaters may find Lenten vegetarianism so spiritually enriching that they take it on to Fridays
during the
rest of the
year (except for Easter and Christmas seasons), and to an Advent Fast, and even adopt the Eastern fasts, like the «Dormition Fast» the fortnight before the Feast
of the Assumption, which the
East calls the Feast
of the Dormition.
In 1973, they set their clocks one hour ahead
of the
rest of the
East Coast, moving to
year - round daylight savings time, to try to save energy
during the Arab oil embargo.