Wednesday, November 10, 2010

When do we Get to Collect on all This Daylight We've Been Saving?

When I get out of work, it's dark out.  I think it's safe to venture that when you get out of work it's dark out.  This is because of a rule called "Daylight Savings".  Contrary to the popular theory that Ben Franklin implemented it, it was actually first used in the United States in 1918, and the idea was proposed by a man named George Vernon Hudson.  His goal in life was to annoy people by making them sleep less.  After the small town he lived in took away his pots, pans, airhorns, symbols, roosters, and cannons, he had to think of a new way to make people tired.  It was then that Daylight Savings was conceived in his brain!  As an added bonus for George, he also managed to depress everyone leaving their office because it felt to them like they had wasted an entirely good day of sun by the time they had left work, a tradition that continues to this very day!  However, as a bonus, we now have more time for owls!

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