Just a reminder that we loose an hour of sleep tonight.
Did you know daylight savings time is a health hazard? Last year I read a report there are more heart attacks the week following the change. Also, we actually do the reverse that one of the reasons it was designed to do. People take advantage of the extra daylight and do more activities that use more electricity and gas than if they had stayed home. Go figure!!!
Personally - I wish they would either leave it daylight time or standard time year round.
The first thing that made me realize there was really something wrong with my husband was a few years ago when he started raging at the time changes. I think he was losing the ability to read an analog watch so it never agreed with the digital clocks in the house. So Bush was playing games with him!
The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin (portrait at right) during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, "An Economical Project." Read more about Franklin's essay.
Some of Franklin's friends, inventors of a new kind of oil lamp, were so taken by the scheme that they continued corresponding with Franklin even after he returned to America.
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html this site goes on to tell the history. At one time they set the clocks ahead 80 minutes. Imagine that confusion. England started it before we did.
Standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads on November 18, 1883. Prior to that, time of day was a local matter, and most cities and towns used some form of local solar time, maintained by a well-known clock (on a church steeple, for example, or in a jeweler's window). The new standard time system was not immediately embraced by all, however.
The plan was not formally adopted in the U.S. until 1918. 'An Act to preserve daylight and provide standard time for the United States' was enacted on March 19, 1918
signed into Public Law 89-387 on April 12, 1966, by President Lyndon Johnson, created Daylight Saving Time to begin on the last Sunday of April and to end on the last Sunday of October. Any State that wanted to be exempt from Daylight Saving Time could do so by passing a state law.
Course there have been many changes throughout the years with the time changing. It is interesting ready of how confused the country was when there was no uniform time - when people went by how they read the sun. :-)
Oh yes he did blame Bush. Absolutely irrational about it!! And of course, it's true that the longer daylight savings came during his administration; he probably DID sign off on it happening. I forget why. You know by now, Nancy, fairness isn't part of the game. He now blames Obama for things. I think he doesn't like authority figures!
You are so right. My husband claims he doesn't recognize the name Obama. I believe he does....he simply cannot grasp the entire concept of change. (oh! wasn't that Obama's campaign keyword, too?? giggle)... DH doesn't want anything to change, doesn't want different foods, or sit in a different chair, ...and doesn't want to wear different clothes. He wants to wear the same clothes every day! I have to grab them and toss them into the washer. Wearing yesterday's socks is one of the worst squabbles we have!! whew!!!!
Changes are not my favorite thing either! This time thing is just a hassle. Il betcha I'll find a clock with the old time on it next month in spite of my efforts to change the oven timers, the coffee timers, the car clock etc. I appreciate my computer does it on its own.