I was wondering where the idea of Daylight savings came from?

Who? A man named Benjamin Franklin.
When? Sometime in the eighteenth century.
Why? To conserve oil and candles.

I thought it was a failed attempt by Hallmark to get another card giving day on the calendar.

I was taught that it was started to help farmers. So that they could start work at roughly the same hour every day and still have appropriate sunlight.

I don’t understand why they couldn’t just judge by the sun rather than by their clock. But that’s what I was taught.

Since we have about two farmers left in the world, I think it’s ridiculous that we keep it up.

Prime Minister Pterodactyl is the one who started it back in 1482, though. I know those two as fact.

@AstroChuck is correct, it was good ol’ Ben. I learned that watching the Powerpuff Girls.

“we didn’t want to trick the cows”

@Sarcasm- I thought it was Pope Pterodactyl.

You know, the older I get, the more I am starting to wonder about the things my grandmother told me. When I was a kid she told me that daylight savings time started during World War II to conserve energy. I wonder if this means that didn’t really take a shower in the wash and wear pantsuit she owned in the 70’s.

I always thought it was because of farmers.

Ben Franklin first thought of it, someone else pushed for it. http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/nodes.html

So farmers could work longer and see what they were doing, right?

But the problem is, our clocks don’t actually change how long the sun is visible in the day

Like with most things, I have been under the wrong impression this whole time.

I know one thing: Whoever thought of it didn’t have small children with internal clocks that strenuously object to being reset.

Ben Franklin thought abut it. there was no standard of time until the railroads, in the late 1800’s. It was originally for the farmers, but it was used in WWII as an energy conservation measure. Lately, it’d just gotten to be a habit we as a society can’t seem to break.

How’d it conserve energy?

@Sarcasm that is a great question. I don’t know, and I don’t think @Yetanotheruser would want me to wake him up just to find out.

Another reason I heard once upon a time was so that kids didn’t have to wait in the dark at the bus stop in the morning.

@Sarcasm, I always figured it saved energy because since it stays lighter later, the lights don’t go on so early

Its just another way for the government to have some control over our lives.