Day lit saveings time was not one of your better ideas. The rual folks in your day had it right all along, get up at day lite when the rooster crows and go to bed at dark after a full day. No need to be changeing clocks. No need to remember spring forward and fall back to know where the stupid clock should be set. Only reason retired folks need a clock it to keep appointments, internal clocks work just fine once you get it set properly. So today it the first day the TV Menu clock Matches the time of the program comeing up next. they have it set for ESDST and it never changes in the fall so all winter the programs are a hour later than the menu. Also to day be ready to possiabley morn the death of loved ones. Heart attck risk are higher for the next 3 days, Being ran over by a sleepy driver is greater for the next 3 days also. I say get rid of it and not force people to deal with the mess. Stores could open sooner if they wished. Companies could also open earlier if they wish. No need to make people sbmit to resetting clocks, micro waves, water softners and all the other things on a timer. It has also been proven it doesn't save enegery. Al
Being run over by a sleepy stupid driver playing with a I phone is greater EVERYDAY......................................
Michigan drivers do not text and drive, It is illegal to do so . Is only a measly $200.oo if caught doing so Al
It has been "proven" ad nauseam that Daylight Saving Time saves about as much energy as it doesn't. Although before the widespread use of air conditioning and many other electronic household devices DST actually probably did save some electricity. Ben did not "invent" Daylight Saving Time. While in Paris, he wrote some sarcastic piece that if Parisians got up with the sun and to bed with the sunset like decent human beings they could save a lot of money on candles. He quite often quoted and supposedly lived Aristotle's philosophy regarding getting a good start to the day making a person healthy and wise.
The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, "An Economical Project." Read more about Franklin's essay. Some of Franklin's friends, inventors of a new kind of oil lamp, were so taken by the scheme that they continued corresponding with Franklin even after he returned to America. The idea was first advocated seriously by London builder William Willett (1857-1915) in the pamphlet, "Waste of Daylight" (1907), that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April, and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September. As he was taking an early morning a ride through Petts Wood, near Croydon, Willett was struck by the fact that the blinds of nearby houses were closed, even though the sun was fully risen. When questioned as to why he didn't simply get up an hour earlier, Willett replied with typical British humor, "What?" In his pamphlet "The Waste of Daylight" he wrote: "Everyone appreciates the long, light evenings******* Everyone laments their shortage as Autumn approaches; and everyone has given utterance to regret that the clear, bright light of an early morning during Spring and Summer months is so seldom seen or used." ******* I do not like the extra day lite in the evening. I much rather have the early morning coolness when the birds are singing to enjoy a cup of tea out beside the bee hives. By mid summer it has gotten so hot and humid in the evening I am sitting wearing a thong in a easy chair in front of a fan bitching about the **^$&**(%$%^##$& heat. Al
Nowhere in Ben's "letter to the Editor" does he mention Daylight Saving Time or shifting of time via manipulating clocks or time. His Puritanical upbringing is admonishing Parisian's lifestyle of up late partying and wasting precious daylight by sleeping late in the morning. What's next ? Perpetrating the myth that Christopher Columbus discovered the New World when it was fairly obvious he was over 15,000 years late ?
