Today’s Run:  7.50 miles

Tonight we usher in Daylight Savings Time.  We “spring ahead!”, aka: lose an hour of sleep.  “A gentle reminder about Daylight Savings Time…If you thought this past Monday sucked…Next Monday will be way worse!”.

I do not know about you, but the more mature (read:  older) I get, the more difficult it becomes to adjust to Daylight Savings Time.  Who came up with this idea anyway?

Brief history of DST

Benjamin Franklin first suggested Daylight Saving Time in 1784, but modern DST was not proposed until 1895 when an entomologist from New Zealand, George Vernon Hudson, presented a proposal for a two-hour daylight saving shift to the Wellington Philosophical Society.

The conception of DST was mainly credited to an English builder, William Willett in 1905, when he presented the idea to advance the clock during the summer months. His proposal was published two years later and introduced to the House of Commons in February 1908. The first Daylight Saving Bill was examined by a select committee but was never made into a law. It was not until World War I, in 1916, that DST was adopted and implemented by several countries in Europe who initially rejected the idea.

These guys needed their heads examined!

My husband absolutely abhors DST!  So, today, I have had the privilege of listening to him tell me about how dumb DST is, how much he dislikes it and then back to what a dumb idea it is and it should be abolished.  Sounds like a good idea to me!

So, tomorrow morning, March 10, 2013, I expect all of you to hop out of bed (like a bunny) at 2:00 am and move those clocks ahead one whole hour.  Spring ahead!!!