Let’s just do it all year.

[953 nut 57,886]

 

 

Daylight Savings Time Starts, observed on March 9 this year, is the practice of advancing the clocks by one hour from Standard Time during the summer months and reverting the clocks to Standard Time in the autumn. The fundamental concept is that doing so will help us all to create better use of natural daylight: putting the clocks forward one hour in the spring will give us more daylight during summer nights while changing the clocks back one hour in the fall would give us more daylight during winter mornings. Thus, Daylight Saving Time helps us save energy and reduce costs.

Benjamin Franklin came up with the notion of resetting clocks in the summer to save electricity. People could use the extra evening daylight instead of wasting energy on illumination by setting the clocks forward. Announcing his ‘finding’ that the sun delivers light as soon as it rises, Franklin penned a humorous letter to the “Journal de Paris” in 1784.

But it was William Willet, an Englishman, the first true proponent of Daylight Saving Time. It came to him early one morning in 1907 while riding his horse. Despite the rising sun, he noted that many houses’ shutters were tightly sealed. Every four Sundays in April and September, Willet spent tens of thousands of dollars pushing businessmen, politicians, and members of the U.S. Congress to move forward 20 minutes. But his plan was largely mocked. The practice was condemned as a sin by one group.

Years later, Daylight Saving Time was finally implemented. During World War I, Germany instituted Daylight Saving Time in May 1916. Soon after, the rest of Europe joined in. So did the U.S. in 1918. President Woodrow Wilson wanted to preserve Daylight Saving Time after W.W.I. ended, in part, because farmers would lose an hour of morning light. Until the next war, Daylight Saving Time was eliminated. Roosevelt declared ‘War Time’ on February 9, 1942, when the war began.

Daylight Saving Time was implemented in all U.S. states and towns after W.W.I.I., causing confusion. That’s why Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966 to control the ‘Wild West.’ Daylight Saving Time began on the first Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October under federal legislation. With the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Daylight Saving Time was extended to the present time in 2007.

 

 

[Blasterdad 3,039]

8 minutes ago, 953 nut said:

Benjamin Franklin came up with the notion of resetting clocks in the summer to save electricity.

 

Light bulbs in 1784 weren't very efficeint, lightning striking his kite couldn't keep up with supply demands. 

[953 nut 57,886]

12 minutes ago, Blasterdad said:

Light bulbs in 1784 weren't very efficeint,

You must be older than you look.                     I wasn't around in 1784 so I will have to take your word on that.      

[Blasterdad 3,039]

37 minutes ago, 953 nut said:

You must be older than you look.                     I wasn't around in 1784 so I will have to take your word on that.      

 

Actually my source was winkapedia. Another fun fact I discovered was that Hungarian immigrant Leopold Eisen Dunkin patented his new light bulb in 1785 which we recognise as the LED, coined after his initials. He also discovered that by wiring 2 of Franklins kites in a series would solve the problem of grid demand. Years later his great grandson Clancy Eisen Dunkin, a retired police officer, would become the founder of Dunkin' Donuts in 1905. 

[rmaynard 15,915]

Though my children are all parents now, I still remember them having to wait for the school bus in the dark. I now have sympathy for my grand children and other children who have to walk to, and wait at the school bus stop in the dark. I am however still a proponent of year-round daylight savings time.

 

 

Edited March 9 by rmaynard

[adsm08 2,642]

I would be in favor of permanent DLS because it's usually not very light out when I leave for work, not matter what time of year it is, and I'd rather have the extra hour of light after work.

 

The last survey about it showed 90% of people wanted to stop changing the clocks, and that of that 90% it was split about 50/50 on which way to leave it, so they did nothing. A more recent survey showed people more in favor of leaving it on standard time, which I am very opposed to.

[953 nut 57,886]

4 hours ago, Blasterdad said:

 

Actually my source was winkapedia. Another fun fact I discovered was that Hungarian immigrant Leopold Eisen Dunkin patented his new light bulb in 1785 which we recognise as the LED, coined after his initials. He also discovered that by wiring 2 of Franklins kites in a series would solve the problem of grid demand. Years later his great grandson Clancy Eisen Dunkin, a retired police officer, would become the founder of Dunkin' Donuts in 1905. 

                                             

[SylvanLakeWH 27,514]

[Ed Kennell 40,468]

6 hours ago, Blasterdad said:

 

Actually my source was winkapedia. Another fun fact I discovered was that Hungarian immigrant Leopold Eisen Dunkin patented his new light bulb in 1785 which we recognise as the LED, coined after his initials. He also discovered that by wiring 2 of Franklins kites in a series would solve the problem of grid demand. Years later his great grandson Clancy Eisen Dunkin, a retired police officer, would become the founder of Dunkin' Donuts in 1905. 

     Might be time to get a day, or night, job.

 

 

 

Edited March 9 by Ed Kennell

[Achto 28,777]

So if you cut 6" off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of the blanket, you have a longer blanket ?? Always been my take on daylight savings.

[SylvanLakeWH 27,514]

 

Its nonsense...

 

Nothing to do with energy...

 

You have exactly the same light and dark hours on any given day over 24 hours...

 

Can we just be done with it...?

 

Pick one, I don't care which, and stick with it...

 

.05/.05

[lynnmor 7,559]

40 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

Its nonsense...

 

Nothing to do with energy...

 

You have exactly the same light and dark hours on any given day over 24 hours...

 

Can we just be done with it...?

 

Pick one, I don't care which, and stick with it...

 

I agree, it is the most childish and ignorant thing.  If you need to adjust for schools, farmers or whatever, then let them start and end their days at a time that suits them best.  The idea of yearly DST is nonsense, what happens next, another adjustment and make it two hours wrong?