OT - Daylight savings begins tonight

Submitted by jmblue on

Don't forget to spring forward all your clocks.

BlueDragon

March 13th, 2011 at 12:05 AM ^

Back in my undergrad days, one of my favorite things to do the morning after a big party was to get up early and go for a long run in the empty streets.  It wasn't always voluntary; sometimes I would get up at 8 AM, be unable to fall asleep, and I would just say "F it" and go running.  It helped a lot with hangovers and it really got your rear end in shape after a few years with those tough North Campus hills.

aaamichfan

March 13th, 2011 at 1:00 AM ^

Does anyone actually use a regular clock anymore? The only one I'll have to manually reset is the digital readout on my stove.

dennisblundon

March 13th, 2011 at 8:05 AM ^

DST is an antiquated practice to begin with, so using a manual clock only seems fitting. Benjamin Franklin first proposed the idea after a trip to Paris. He liked their idea and figured it would conserve on the use of candles. The idea never catches on until WWI, when Germany and then all of it's allies, start to use it in order to conserve the use of coal for the war effort. DST disappears after that until WWII when it is practiced again.

DST isn't uniformly used until The Uniform Time Act of 1966. The only exception was in 1973 during the Arab Oil Embargo, Congress put the nation on extended DST for 2 years, in order to reduce our oil consumption.

Looked it up, thought it was interesting, decided to share.