Arizona does not
use Daylight Saving Time. They get it, with the kind of heat they have, it
would just be ridiculous. I wish we wouldn't use it here in Texas. It
doesn't get quite as hot here, but it comes close. Last year, we had highs in
the summer of 110 degrees. It's getting more like Phoenix, Arizona.
Daylight Saving Time was apparently thought up by Benjamin
Franklin who thought it would save money on candles. That’s nice, back in the
1700’s, long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away. Well, actually northeast from
here, where it’s cooler in the summer and long before air-conditioning was even
a thought. The only burning of candles these days is for those setting a
certain mood or burning those scented candles that give me asthma. Daylight Saving Time was also supposed to
help farmers somehow, I think allowing them more daylight for harvesting crops
or something like that. Actually, I read that farmers or don't like Daylight Saving Time because they have to get up with the sun no matter what, but don't like screwing around with the clocks in order to sell their crops. Of course now, farms are huge corporations and I doubt if screwing around with the clocks matters to them one way or another.
According to standard time.com, Daylight Saving Time was used back in WWI to save fuel by using fewer electric lights. It wasn't observed again, with the exception of a few states, until WWII. In 1973, DST was used year round. Thank goodness that didn't work out! In my opinion, Daylight Saving Time was a concept thought up many years ago and the idea of it still exists, even though the actual reason for it has gone the way of the dinosaurs.
The article on standard time.com also stated that it is shown that there are more traffic accidents on the Monday after Daylight Saving Time kicks in because people are tired from losing that hour of sleep. Why is Daylight Saving Time a good thing? It's not.
According to standard time.com, Daylight Saving Time was used back in WWI to save fuel by using fewer electric lights. It wasn't observed again, with the exception of a few states, until WWII. In 1973, DST was used year round. Thank goodness that didn't work out! In my opinion, Daylight Saving Time was a concept thought up many years ago and the idea of it still exists, even though the actual reason for it has gone the way of the dinosaurs.
The article on standard time.com also stated that it is shown that there are more traffic accidents on the Monday after Daylight Saving Time kicks in because people are tired from losing that hour of sleep. Why is Daylight Saving Time a good thing? It's not.
One thing for sure, vampires would not like Daylight Saving Time, they don't want to save any daylight - ever! No, I'm not a vampire. I wonder if there was a Zombie Apocalypse, would that put an end to Daylight Saving Time? I mean like Zombies don't really care about saving daylight, they just want to eat brains, right?
Some people actually like Daylight Saving Time. Most of them live
up north, but there are a few that live in Texas. Some people are naturally
early morning people that actually enjoy getting up an hour earlier. This is a
life form that is unnatural and alien to me. My mother was a morning person, ‘bright-eye
and bushy-tailed’ at 5:30 AM every morning. I am her polar opposite. I am not and never
will be a morning person.Vampires aren't morning people either, but I am not a vampire.
One year, I had to go to work at the grocery store at 7AM on the
morning after the dreaded Daylight Saving Time got switched on. It was
technically 6 AM and I felt like it was more like 4AM. The first thing I had to
do was bring carts in from the lot. It’s a good thing there wasn’t much traffic
in the lot because my level of awareness was very low. I probably wouldn’t have
even noticed a semi at high speed right in front of me. After that, I had to go in and bag
groceries. Usually bagging groceries at that hour isn’t bad, people usually come in to
get just a few items like doughnuts and maybe some bacon and eggs. There are
those few who do their weekly or monthly grocery shopping at that hour. This
one lady rolled a cart up to the register I was at, (the only register that was
open at that time) with a mountainous pile of groceries in it that looked like
enough to feed an army of teenage boys for a month and a half. She was all
perky and must have been there since the store opened. I hate it when people
are perky early in the morning. I bagged her groceries in the manner that I was
supposed to; bagging groceries is something you can do at a lower level of
awareness and still do a good job. I don’t remember much after that, but in my
mind, I was questioning her sanity the whole time.
One year, my future husband and I were out on a date when I was
still living with my parents. It was the night that Daylight Saving Time was
to be switched on. I was an adult, but my parents still had strict rules about
what time they wanted me home and I was sick and tired of it. I was usually
home in plenty of time. My mother had an amazing imagination and if I hadn’t
come home when she wanted me to, at the exact second that I said I would or that she said I would, she would
imagine that I had suffered any number of horrible disasters she had seen on
the news. Well, that night, Steve and I were at the Ohio State area on High
Street. I remember we visited a night club and small concert area
called ‘The Agora.’ We were having a good time and figured since I was an
adult, it was okay. It wasn’t. Like I said earlier, it was the night Daylight
Saving Time happened, so I actually got in an hour later than I really got in,
if that makes any sense. When I got
home, I got chewed out by my mom big time. My dad went along with her. In the
days following, they kept reminding me of it, over and over again, as if I had committed a felony. They never let me forget about
it, even after Steve and I got married and moved to Texas. I don’t think my mom
ever forgot about it! Moving to Texas was a necessity in order to get a job,
but it was also a blessing because then my mom couldn't be like those guys' mom on 'Everybody Loves Raymond' with an attitude.
This weekend is the time for Daylight Saving Time to be switched
on. It is called ‘Spring Forward’ but I call it being
needlessly yanked forward an hour by an inane custom that’s over 100 years old
that has no reason for existing except that people are in the habit of doing it
and a few crazy morning people have the power to make it happen. No matter how much I rant and rave, it's not going to change, we're still going to be subjected to this nonsensical time change. I can write my congressman a request to help end Daylight Saving Time just like I do every year but the masses are entrenched in the habit of changing their clocks twice a year and it will take some sort of apocalypse to change that. I just need to look forward to 'Fall Back' when the timeline once again becomes normal and sane.
Check out this article:
Here's another article where I got my facts: http://www.standardtime.com/
Here's another article where I got my facts: http://www.standardtime.com/
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