Losing an hour

[agate]

It's that time of year again, the time when we lose an hour because of Daylight Saving Time.

Spring forward, as they say.

[Sunshine]

The good thing is that it will be a lot easier to get to the beach before sunrise. Like today.

[Howie]

I go by that old saying...."Spring forward, Fall down".

[jendie]

It's that time of year again, the time when we lose an hour because of Daylight Saving Time.

Spring forward, as they say.

I'm really tired. When I first saw the topic, I could have sworn you wrote that it was the time when we lose hair, instead of losing an hour.

I'm going to go to bed now. I'll read more on the board after I have gotten some sleep.

[Jeanie Z]

:)I dislike the Spring one where I lose an hours sleep. Jeanie :)

[agate]

I don't know about other people but yesterday I was good for absolutely nothing all day long. I kept dropping things and making mistakes and was very slow at everything I tried to do. There's a campaign to end Daylight Saving Time. I might sign up for it.

[Earth Mother 2 Angels]

((((((Hugs to All)))))) ~

Daylight Savings Time messes with our body clocks in our family. For Jon, it affects the timing of his med doses. It takes my body clock a long time to recover from losing or gaining an hour every year. I want consistency!

I'm sure that there are thousands of sites on the internet about how time changes affect all of us biologically, mentally, emotionally. But I'm too tired to look them up right now. Because I lost an hour yesterday and today.

We still haven't changed all of our clocks. (We have a lot of clocks.)

I'm not a fan of DST. Never have been, never will be. Make it go away.

UGH!

Love & Light,

Rose

[agate]

Somebody posted a video on Facebook in favor of ending Daylight Saving Time. According to the video, the biggest supporter of DST is the US Chamber of Commerce, and the idea is that if we have more daylight in the evening, we'll be spending more money.

[Virginia]

Glad to see I've got company. I do not like DST. I have not felt well past few days and I am blaming it on that.

[Howie]

DST was created to give farmers an extra hour of daylight, thus the name "daylight saving time". But now the farming is mechanized, and controlled, and a small population feeds the masses.

So even having DST is not needed these days. I hope they do a reality check, and end it.

[Frog42]

That's a joke. Animals follow their own internal clock no matter what time humans think it is. I think it came about to give people a better excuse to go out and spend money.

[Parsi]

Blame good old Ben Franklin. He conceived of the idea while ambassador to France in 1784. But wasn't seriously considered until 1907.
I unsuccessfully tried to paste a link to the site I found that info from.

[agate]

Maybe it was here, Parsi?

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The original idea seems to have been to oblige people to use less artificial lighting and so save fuel towards the war effort of World War I. Interesting that farmers were opposed to it in England:

Willett’s Daylight Saving plan caught the attention of Member of Parliament, Robert Pearce, who introduced a bill to the House of Commons in February 1908. The first Daylight Saving Bill was drafted in 1909, presented to Parliament several times and examined by a select committee. However, the idea was opposed by many, especially farmers, so the bill was never made into a law.

I can't imagine that farmers would like the idea. Animals of my acquaintance can't tell time but maybe there are smart animals out there.

[Howie]

Sam wears a watch wouldn't you know, and it's set on DST. She said it was created to give cats an extra hour of outdoor activity.

[agate]

Sam wears a watch wouldn't you know, and it's set on DST. She said it was created to give cats an extra hour of outdoor activity.

Well, that settles it then.