Well guys, it's that time again. At 2 a.m. on Sunday morning most of us change our clocks to have that extra hour of daylight in the evening. (We won't talk about the hour of sleep we loose in the morning.) Have you ever wondered if people all over the world do this and whose idea was it to do this anyway and why?
I was reading this article on The Christian Science Monitors site and it seems that all around the world the issue of coordinating time has been a problem that needed a solution. In 1840, the British railroad system developed"railroad time" to keep trains from running on the same track at the same time. The US worked on ways to coordinate by using the time zones. Other countries use similar systems to for navigation between the northern and southern hemisphere. But our Daylight Savings Time actually started in Germany during World War I as a way to conserve coal and give workers more time to get things done before the blackouts that took place every day. During this time the idea caught on in other countries and by the end of WWII, America reinstated the practice.
I was reading this article on The Christian Science Monitors site and it seems that all around the world the issue of coordinating time has been a problem that needed a solution. In 1840, the British railroad system developed"railroad time" to keep trains from running on the same track at the same time. The US worked on ways to coordinate by using the time zones. Other countries use similar systems to for navigation between the northern and southern hemisphere. But our Daylight Savings Time actually started in Germany during World War I as a way to conserve coal and give workers more time to get things done before the blackouts that took place every day. During this time the idea caught on in other countries and by the end of WWII, America reinstated the practice.
In our world, where we are available 24 hours a day, it really seem crazy to continue the tradition but in as early as 1996 the US government made the change a standard and in 2007 voted to continue the practice.
What I want to know is what do you think? Do you look forward the "spring forward, fall back" or is it another of life's little headaches.
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