It’s that time of year again! The snow is melting, the grass is green and the birds are chirping. We all know what that means…time to spring forward!
On Sunday, March 14, we will have our bi-annual celebration of daylight savings time. (If you celebrate that kind of thing, that is.) Once the clock strikes 2:00 a.m., it will immediately jump ahead to 3:00 a.m.!
Does anyone else feel like 2:00 a.m. is getting kind of a raw deal here?
Daylight savings time was first observed in North America back in 1908, in the Canadian Province of Thunder Bay. Saskatchewan jumped on the bandwagon six-years later, and Manitoba followed two-years after that. Then some stuff happened and we started doing it here.
So, why do we use daylight savings time?
Well, according to timeanddate.com, it “is used to save energy and make better use of daylight.”
I don’t quite see how losing an hour of sleep helps us save energy, but it all has something to do with the Romans, Benjamin Franklin, and possibly Germany, so there you go.
So, from all of us at the West Virginia Daily News, happy daylight savings…day? (Time? Whatever.)
Oh, and for anyone worried that 2:00 a.m. may get its feelings hurt, don’t worry. November is coming!
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