What was that line.... Only the government is stupid enough to believe you can cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it on the bottom and believe you have a longer blanket.
There’s one OECD country w/o Daylight Savings Time:
Japan.
There’s a million things that rock about Japan but the lack of DST absolutely isn’t one of them.
Let’s see... spring ahead, right? So we turn our clocks ahead one hour which means we lose an hour, right?. Hate that.
It’s a stupid, twice-a-year exercise. Set it to DST and leave it!
Arizona,
HAWAII?
I think Indiana is Exempt
from the Stupidity as well.
Well I’ll be the differing person. I wish the heck we could stay on daylight savings time. The extra hour when I get home is great!
They’re too afraid of the time police.
Daylight time is supposedly helping save energy. I wonder if that’s really true.
This last year, I didn’t bother to reset my clocks. It’s been easier to remember that my clocks are an hour ahead of everyone else’s. The upside was no sleep disruption and being an hour ahead of everyone else!
May 30, 1381.
https://youtu.be/4kq9sbtFCR8
DST confuses the cows, which causes them to fart more.
But it means one less hour of rain tonight, right?
Boston and Fort Wayne, Indiana are in the same time zone ... and yet the sun rises and sets in Fort Wayne something like 50 minutes later than it does in Boston.
I unashamedly LOVE daylight saving time.
I love the fact that my husband and I have three hours of daylight after dinner; daylight for the yardwork only he can do. Daylight to go for a bike ride, or a walk. Daylight to sit on the porch without bugs, after we return from the grocery.
I don’t need that sunlight in the morning when he goes to work and I am still in bed. Who does yard work at 6 AM?
I am looking forward to that hour tomorrow evening.
I will simply go to bed an hour earlier tonight.
Oregon legislature has a bill in process to make DST permanent. It’s ONE thing the wackos here may support.
The cynic in me wonders who exactly makes money off this practice that seems to have no apparent purpose.
I love all this whining. Reminds me of me when we go back to the depressing early evening darkness of standard time.
Just have the whole nation spring forward 1/2 hour, then fuhgeddaboudit. I’m fine with that compromise.
William Willet. . . is often credited with spearheading the modern movement to introduce Daylight Saving Time (DST) or "Advance Time" in Great Britain. Willet’s efforts resulted in the introduction of “British Summer Time” (BST) through the passage of the Summer Time Act (6 & 7 Geo. 5 c.14) in 1916. However, credit must also be given to Benjamin Franklin who proposed this idea in 1784 in his essay “An Economical Project.” [in a satire poking fun at the French for sleeping until noon]. The first introduction in the US of DST was two seventh month periods in 1918 and 1919 for the purposes of conserving resources during World War I (see the original Calder Act at 40 Stat. 450 which also established the time zones).From a Daylight Saving Time webpage:
Following World War I DST was abolished on a national level and thus became a matter of local option. The beginning of the Second World War saw the need to reintroduce DST on a national basis. On February 9, 1942 the Roosevelt administration instituted year-round DST (56 Stat. 9), known at the time as “War Time,” until the end of the war in September 1945 (59 Stat. 537). Once again the end of a war led to an end to the nationwide adoption of DST, however states and local authorities were free to choose whether or not to adopt DST. The resulting chaotic picture led to the Interstate Commerce Commission, and later the Department of Transportation (the transfer of power from the ICC to the DOT was formalized by the Uniform Time Act of 1966), to push for a nationwide standard on DST. While opposition to a nationwide standard was voiced by the agricultural industry, far louder cries in favor of standardization were made by a variety of industries including the transportation and broadcasting industries.
"In the U.S., 2:00 a.m. was originally chosen as the changeover time because it was practical and minimized disruption. Most people were at home and this was the time when the fewest trains were running. It is late enough to minimally affect bars and restaurants, and it prevents the day from switching to yesterday, which would be confusing. It is early enough that the entire continental U.S. switches by daybreak, and the changeover occurs before most early shift workers and early churchgoers are affected."