I’ve often wondered why we still observe the seasonal time change, it’s hard adjusting every 6 months. I find this process Irksome as it shifts the darkness from morning to night; then back again 6 months later. DST started decades ago addressing the era’s issues with gravitational shifts of the earth.
Daylight Savings Time according to Wiki:
New ZealanderGeorge Hudson proposed the idea of daylight saving in 1895. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary organized the first nationwide implementation, starting on April 30, 1916. Many countries have used it at various times since then, particularly since the energy crisis of the 1970s.
There seems to be some controversy relating to who initiated DST as Channel 9 news contributes DST to Benjamin Franklin:
“Benjamin Franklin first conceived the idea during his days an ambassador to France in 1784. In his essay An Economical Project, Franklin said in part:
I went home, and to bed, three or four hours after midnight, with my head full of the subject. An accidental sudden noise waked me about six in the morning, when I was surprised to find my room filled with light; and I imagined at first, that a number of those lamps had been brought into it; but, rubbing my eyes, I perceived the light came in at the windows. I got up and looked out to see what might be the occasion of it, when I saw the sun just rising above the horizon, from whence he poured his rays plentifully into my chamber, my domestic having negligently omitted, the preceding evening, to close the shutters.
I looked at my watch, which goes very well, and found that it was but six o’clock; and still thinking it something extraordinary that the sun should rise so early, I looked into the almanac, where I found it to be the hour given for his rising on that day. I looked forward, too, and found he was to rise still earlier every day till towards the end of June; and that at no time in the year he retarded his rising so long as till eight o’clock. Your readers, who with me have never seen any signs of sunshine before noon, and seldom regard the astronomical part of the almanac, will be as much astonished as I was, when they hear of his rising so early; and especially when I assure them, that he gives light as soon as he rises. I am convinced of this. I am certain of my fact. One cannot be more certain of any fact. I saw it with my own eyes. And, having repeated this observation the three following mornings, I found always precisely the same result.
Friends of Franklin responded so positively to the idea that they continued to discuss the topic of a time change even after he had returned to America in 1785.” per Channel 9
Regardless as to it’s origin, it will be a good day when, or if, the process of changing our clocks according to season, becomes obsolete. We’ve advanced substantially since it’s inception, when will this madness end?
