Posted on 03/05/2018 11:01:22 AM PST by Kaslin
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/history.html
While Germany and Austria were the first countries to use DST in 1916, it is a little-known fact that a few hundred Canadians beat the German Empire by 8 years. On July 1, 1908, the residents of Port Arthur, Ontario, today’s Thunder Bay, turned their clocks forward by 1 hour to start the world’s first DST period.
So, it was a WAR plan by Germany - that makes sense - confuse your enemy.
What doesn’t make sense is why the US and other nations did it. Changing the clock does not change sunrise & sunset.
Dumb, dumb dumb!!!!!
I have one:
Instead of going back and forth twice a year, move clocks ahead one-half hour and leave them there year round!
I hate daylight savings time!
Why don't we run the months ahead by one so Xmas will come earlier??? [/sarc]
Seriously, the problem you have is that altho you have plenty of advance warning, it’s hard to get to sleep earlier than your internal clock is set for. Buy yourself some 1 mg. Melatonin tablets, and take one of them an hour before your normal bedtime and go to bed. It’s not a drastic measure, melatonin is made by your body. My doc recommended it to me after asking how well I slept. Which wasn’t all that well before I started taking melatonin routinely.
New Mexico, which is a screwed up state to begin with, has a problem with DST. With standard time, there is a time zone change with Texas. During DST, there is a time zone change with both Texas AND Arizona! So if you’re driving from Amarillo to say Flagstaff on I-40, you gain two hours going and lose two coming back. I don’t know what to call that - highway lag??
I’ve tried Melatonin more than once. Zero effect. It doesn’t calm my body or brain down. Wish it did. Tried many other things as well. I’ve always ha a sleep disorder. Walk in my sleep often since I was a little kid.
Yea, old, young Ben, liked the ladies.
The crops will get a certain amount of light(per any given day) regardless of how humans set their clocks. Did you perhaps misquote what the farmers were saying? Or were you trying to be funny? Let say on any day...let’s say June 1st; no matter if you had dst or not, the amount of light is the same for the crops. The crops don’t care how we set our clocks....but you were just being funny, right?
That joke is fifty years old. Surprised you never heard it before. Your condescending explanation is quite unnecessary.
Daylight “standard” time, is, by definition, the standard. Just leave the clocks as they are right now.
And those of us in Texas (millions upon millions, apparently!) we don’t want to be outside more - it’s freakin’ hot, humid and the mosquitoes will eat you alive!
How about if it is so bad/good for business, farmers, chickens and space aliens; then perhaps THOSE entities can tell their workers when to come in to work and just leave ME alone with my sundial!
Tell your employer!!!
Why do we never hear night shift workers speak up about DST?
Try living in Tuba City, AZ!!
Nope; after...
Set your clock earlier next time!!
Yeah, that’s what I hear, but that seems like another good reason to have more pre-work daylight. Isn’t it a lot less hot, humid and full of mosquitoes then?
Just be glad that the whole world uses the Gregorian calender!
Oh...
Wait...
“How about going an hour earlier to bed?”
... and staying out of the pub!!
I love DST, would prefer it year round. HATE when it’s dark at 5pm. This year I beat those Dark Too Early Blues by leaving my Christmas tree up, fully lighted around the clock, until 1/25.
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