Kermit the Frog---Day Light Saving Time
Oct 30, 2020 12:54:14 #
It has been quite a year and I feel this way too. How many others do also?
Oct 30, 2020 13:51:48 #
Oct 30, 2020 14:15:33 #
Personally, I wish they would leave the time as it is. I hate the shorter hours of daylight. Supposedly, there was legislation to not change the time but I guess it didn't pass.
Dodie
Dodie
Oct 30, 2020 15:10:36 #
luvmypets wrote:
Personally, I wish they would leave the time as it is. I hate the shorter hours of daylight. Supposedly, there was legislation to not change the time but I guess it didn't pass.
Dodie
Dodie
If I remember correctly from long ago*. Daylight Saving time was first proposed in 1895 and Germany & Austria-Hungary first implemented it in 1916 during WW I to shift working hours to daylight in the factories to save electricity on lighting and hopefully increase production.
*just did a search - yes my memory is correct.
Oct 30, 2020 15:38:56 #
luvmypets wrote:
Personally, I wish they would leave the time as it is. I hate the shorter hours of daylight. Supposedly, there was legislation to not change the time but I guess it didn't pass.
Dodie
Dodie
Me, too!!!
Oct 30, 2020 15:42:13 #
shangyrhee wrote:
I love it !!! Shang
Thanks for posting your wonderful comment.
Oct 30, 2020 15:44:05 #
robertjerl wrote:
If I remember correctly from long ago*. Daylight Saving time was first proposed in 1895 and Germany & Austria-Hungary first implemented it in 1916 during WW I to shift working hours to daylight in the factories to save electricity on lighting and hopefully increase production.
*just did a search - yes my memory is correct.
*just did a search - yes my memory is correct.
Thank you for the information about its origins.
Oct 30, 2020 18:37:37 #
When I was a kid I heard the reason we didn't stay on DST and turned our clocks back in the Fall was so schoolchildren wouldn't be walking to school or getting on a bus before full daylight.
Oct 30, 2020 19:57:15 #
luvmypets wrote:
Personally, I wish they would leave the time as it is. I hate the shorter hours of daylight. Supposedly, there was legislation to not change the time but I guess it didn't pass.
Dodie
Dodie
Day light savings has nothing to do with the number of hours of daylight. It may determine if you get up in the morning when it's light or dark out. My sister lives toward the western end of the eastern time zone. Her attitude on the subject is different than mine on the east coast.
You can't please all of the people all of the time.
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Oct 31, 2020 08:45:03 #
Hawaii and Arizona do not use Daylight Savings time, so if you do not want to change your clocks twice every year you could move to one of those two places.
Oct 31, 2020 09:26:48 #
In Australia, it was all about the hens not laying, the curtains faded, cows go dry, etc etc.
They walk amongst us???
They walk amongst us???
Oct 31, 2020 10:21:00 #
Bunko.T wrote:
In Australia, it was all about the hens not laying, the curtains faded, cows go dry, etc etc.
They walk amongst us???
They walk amongst us???
Just don’t put clocks in the henhouse or the barn. The animals will never know about the time change. Problem solved.
Oct 31, 2020 10:40:51 #
Oct 31, 2020 11:32:43 #
luvmypets wrote:
Personally, I wish they would leave the time as it is. I hate the shorter hours of daylight. Supposedly, there was legislation to not change the time but I guess it didn't pass.
Dodie
Dodie
How is it possible that it is so impossible to just stick with one or the other? I will change my alarm clock to adjust thank you!
Oct 31, 2020 12:38:33 #
redlegfrog wrote:
How is it possible that it is so impossible to just stick with one or the other? I will change my alarm clock to adjust thank you!
Back then many people had no clock of any kind, let alone an alarm clock. The local church or city hall bell/clock and loud bells ringing at certain times served for them. So if you wanted to shift for the hours of daylight the bell towers shifted the ringing of the bells.
In the 1950's for my 8th grade year we lived in York, PA right next door to a large church that had a tower clock and mechanism to ring the bells at set hours. A one lane ally separated us from the side wall of the church. Those bells got your attention.
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