losing an hour

don't forget to set clocks forward... or you're gonna be late to do, prolly nothing.

f-u daylight savings

Thanks for the reminder, I would of woke up tommorow and been like "WTF time, what is wrong with you?"

Same here although I really wish that the time hadn't changed.

Day light savings is really pointless. The original point of it was to give farmers more time to work with light. Now a day the government claims that it saves power (electricity) and resources. I could see that but I wonder what the net effects of it would be considering people would be out more if there was more light.

It was actually invented by William Willett because he saw that many Londoners slept through the best part of summer days. He also enjoyed golf and didn't like when his games were cut short by dusk. So, he proposed Daylight Savings Time, but it wasn't accepted by Parliament. During WWI, Germany, its allies, and its occupied nations were the first to adopt DST for wartime purposes in 1916. The enactment gradually spread throughout Europe throughout 1917 and the United States enacted it in 1918.

There were forms of it in ancient Rome and 18th century Europe, however at that time there was no accurate time scheduling, so it wasn't until rail transport and communication networks came about requiring a standardization of time.

Jesus knows all and sees all but can he see why kids...


lol just joking around, but I seriously thought that Ben Franklin invented daylight savings time... right..?

That's a popular misconception. As an envoy to France from America, he anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians rise earlier, thereby economizing on candles. In this he proposed that they tax shutters, rationing candles, and using church bells and cannon fire as a method of waking the public.

i think it was started by xenu and it deals with thetan levels.

I am perplexed. On the one hand, I just lost an hour of sleep. On the other, it means I get off from work an hour earlier. I am all at once devastated and elated.

I don't like daylight savings time, because you neither "gain" nor "lose" time. You do actually gain time in the fall, but then in the spring you undo it, so there is no real reason to have messed with your clock at all. Just wake up an hour earlier if you have work/school at night, or ask if you can come to work and get out early(if your boss is nice and work permits this). But then again, I prefer the night, and stay up too late to begin with.

DST is so confusing, here in the UK it hasnt hit us yet (I think) so we are here waiting in limbo, for our sleep hour to be stolen.

DST hasn't gotten to New Zealand either, so I'm not bothered.