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Daylight Saving Time is Antiquated
It's 2021 — why is this still a thing.
Certain things get me riled up for no substantial reason.
Daylight Saving Time is one of those things.
I’m a big advocate of efficiencies — if something is not needed, get rid of it. To me, daylight saving time is no longer needed. It was “created” years ago when society lived differently.
In the US (most of the US), daylight saving time begins this Sunday. So on March 14th, the second Sunday of March, the clock will jump from 1:59 AM to 3:00 AM.
Here’s how it started, why it aggravates me, and why we should get rid of it.
How Daylight Saving Time started
The story goes that Daylight Saving Time was first proposed in the late 1800s. George Hudson presented the idea of a two-hour shift in time to the Royal Society of New Zealand (where he lived.) He was an entomologist who wanted to gather “the finest and most perfect collection of New Zealand insects.”
His problem was that it would get dark too early in the day, so he had to stop his insect hunting. So he proposed advancing clocks two hours in summer and then shifted back in the winter when he wasn’t bug-hunting.
