I hate Daylight Savings Time, and I’m not the only one. Not so much the thing itself, but the switchover to it in the spring. I deeply resent being forced to get up an hour earlier.
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Well, I do hate it, but I don’t take it quite so personally.
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It’s especially bad for those of us living in the western end of a time zone. In the Cincinnati area we are about fifty minutes “clock” time ahead of solar time when we are on slow time. When daylight savings time is in effect we are 110 minutes ahead of the sun. I find it’s worse in the evening than in the morning, because 11:00 rolls around when it’s “really” only about 9:10. It really upsets the biorhythms for the first several days of daylight savings time.
Well, if it were started because of wretched puritans hating people sleeping in on a Sunday in the summer, then what can I say? I now officially hate daylight savings.
Unofficially, however, I quite like it, but the change-over is a pain.
This morning I really hate it. My hatred has been inflamed this year by the fact that I now have to get up early on Sunday morning, so I don’t have that day to adjust slowly.
“really upsets the biorhythms”–yes, there seems to be some evidence that heart attacks and traffic accidents rise on the Monday after the change.
Good old Wikipedia. There I found that an English-born New Zealander, George Vernon Hudson, is credited with suggesting daylight saving time back in 1895.
So the Puritans escape that one. 😉
Supposedly Benjamin Franklin broached the idea, too.
I think Franklin’s suggestion was sort of a joke. Again from Wikipedia: “During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, publisher of the old English proverb, ‘Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise’, anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight. This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.”
By the way, I had a second comment on daylight savings time and farm workers, but maybe your spam filter ate it? It had a hyperlink in it.
I don’t see it, Marianne. Sorry. A single hyperlink shouldn’t be enough to make it be treated as spam, although it frequently requires confirmation if there’s a hyperlink.
It didn’t ask for confirmation, but it did say it posted. Weird.
Anyway, nothing profound was lost. I just said that I’d always liked daylight savings time when I lived in the San Joaquin Valley in Calif. because it meant being able to start the day when it was still somewhat cool.
And that farm workers liked it for the same reason. Temperatures there can be around 115 F. in the shade in the summer, so getting out in the fields even one hour earlier makes a difference to them.
You do have a choice! Saskatchewan doesn’t change time. But, we still have about 3 feet of snow on the ground and hit -13f today.
Good grief.
Didn’t know the San Joaquin was that hot. I’ll be fine with DST later on. Along about midsummer I’ll enjoy the long evenings. Right now I’m grumpy.
I mean “puritan” in a more general sense.