It's funny you started this thread and then said , "we get an extra hour of sleep," because anyone responding to this thread at this hour did not, in fact, get an extra hour of sleep.
This is the only daylight savings day that I enjoy. Spring Forward can go jump into a lake for all I care. :grin:
I sure do enjoy the extra hour of sleep, but that's the last thing I like about the loss of daylight savings time. From now until the clock changes again, I will wake up in the dark and get home in the dark.
My honest guess is that back in the day most of the world was primarily agricultural economically. So since farmers did most of their work during the day when daylight was out, time had to be adjusted on these days to account for the Earth actually completing a cycle a little bit (faster? shorter? don't remember) than the twenty four hours we use to measure a "day". I could be completely off, let me check wikipedia. That's just a guess. EDIT: Nope completely off. :grin:
I assumed the same, thinking it was always an agricultural thing to benefit use of available daylight to farmers. it turns out many US farmers are opposed to DST. i always thought it was an energy/electricity thing. and when US Congress extended DST into early November back in 2007, it was part of an Energy Policy bill.
Aren't there states that don't observe a time change? I want to say that Arizona is one of those states.
Why is it that the board doesn't show the end of daylight savings time? Look at the timestamp on the posts.
Kids have no concept of that extra hour of sleep. It just meant we were up at 6:15 this morning instead of 7:15.
Mexico moved their clocks back a week earlier than the US. I was there in Mexico during this incredible phenomenon.
