Posted on 03/10/2018 6:07:09 AM PST by ETL
Whether you blame it on the French, the English, the Germans or Benjamin Franklin, the scourge of daylight saving time will strike at 2 a.m. Sunday and create havoc for the hapless American worker. And it all started as a joke. The elderly Benjamin Franklin, said to enjoy a robust social life in Paris as the American envoy, after bit of an all-nighter was once unhappily woken by the morning sunlight at 6 a.m. Annoyed, as any red-blooded American would be, he penned a bit of satire.
The French, Franklin wrote, could save the modern-day equivalent of $200 million “through the economy of using sunshine instead of candles” if they moved their clocks ahead by an hour.
Naturally, politicians could not take a joke and turned farce into fact, and poor Ben’s name has been defamed ever since as the founding father of daylight saving time. Still, this pained idea was championed by an Englishman named William Willett, an earnest man and obviously the kind of offensively cheerful person who can make anyone’s morning a nightmare.
Willet wrote a brochure titled “The Waste of Daylight” in 1907. He preached the gospel of “summer time,” proving once again that the American colonists were wise to fight a war to distance ourselves from tyranny.
But it wasn’t until World War I that the Germans actually implemented the idea, and it crossed the ocean to the U.S. in 1918. Now, 100 years later, perhaps it’s time to send it back.
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funny, you never get these articles in the fall...
Yeah, make it stop...and $h!tKan the post office...even if Amazon.com IS now bailing them out!
Replace the worst w/the best—UPS!
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Moving the start of DLST from end of April to now second Sunday in March is too much.
I wish it was DST year around.
A few years ago I was in southern Michigan in mid June.I arrived,by car,at about 9PM on a clear day and there was still bright sunlight.Even at about 10PM you could still see a little bit of the blue sky above.I found that interesting.
I like Daylight Savings Time!
Once, while visiting customers in Las Vegas area one winter, I was in 4 or 5 time zones in one day. AZ/Nevada/AZ/Utah/Nevada/California. That was a tough day to be on time for appointments.
8 states visited that day, as I remember.
I’d like to set it a half hour in between and just leave it there year round. Call it MAGA Time.
Imo, it’s an especially bad idea in the fall because, with the winter solstice approaching, it shortens an already shortening day (Spring ahead, Fall back).
Split the difference. Move it half an hour and leave it alone.
I wish it was DST year around.
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Florida is attempting to do that, which I prefer. The best part is no messing with the clocks twice a year and making adjustments in sleep times.
Move the clocks 1/2 hour and then leave them alone.
Same here. My morning activities I can do in the dark. I like having more daylight hours in the evening.
DST exists for only one reason: to remind you who’s in charge. Government says it’s 3AM and you agree. Stay in line and do what you’re told.
I like longer days.
It’s Standard Time that I detest.
How about, apply the one hour changes more gradually? ie, apply each one-hour time adjustment *daily* over the 6 month period. If I did the math correctly it would work out to about 20 seconds a day. (Joking!!)
In my opinion, Daylight Savings Time is pure BS and a pain in the rear.
I beef about it, Fall and Spring.
It screws up your body clock.
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