Daylight Savings Time

Daylight Savings Time is when we lose an hour of daylight in the spring and gain an hour of daylight in the fall. It was originally proposed by Benjamin Franklin, in 1784, to conserve candles. Daylight Savings Time was officially enacted in America on March 18th, 1918, when it was used to save on energy costs during World War I. Surprisingly, the Germans discovered Daylight Savings Time two years prior to the Americans. The Germans would use this theory to save costs on fuel during World War I. The native Americans thought that Daylight Savings Time was a dumb concept and said, “Only a white man would believe you could cut a foot off the top of the blanket, sew it onto the bottom of the blanket, and you'd be left with a longer blanket." 

This is an interesting philosophy about Daylight Saving Time and some states do not support daylight savings time such as Hawaii and Arizona. The senate is retracting Daylight Savings Time from the states of Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. This would take effect on November 6th, 2022. 

• Jake Wingfield