That Time of Year Again

I have to tell you ... these past few weeks, especially these past few days, have made it extremely difficult to spend time on Facebook. Just like everyone else reading this, it's one of the first sites I open in the morning and one of the last I close at night, but yesterday and today have been painful, really really painful. 

That's why I'm not getting into that right now and want to blog about something else ... something a little more "light" ... Daylight Savings. See what I did there with light?

First and most obvious question, who invented daylight savings? Don't worry, I'm actually going to answer that, so Question 2, does anyone have a logical explanation for why it exists? If yes on 2, I would love to hear it. And 3rd question, why do we just do it? Seriously, we just change our clocks, adjust our whole lives by an hour without a blink. Well, I'm blinking. 

Wikipedia tells me it's "the practice of advancing clocks so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less". 

Is that true? I mean that's what half of daylight savings is, but what about the other half? The half I just took part in and now I'm sitting at my desk at 3:30pm ET and it's basically dark out. 

I must say I am a little impressed by DS (yeah I call it "DS" now) when it comes to people just doing it. Literally, no one questions it. Not true, actually everyone questions it, because we don't know what the F it is, but at the end of the day, we abide by it. We say to ourselves, "well, it's that time of year again" and change our clocks. In today's digital world, we may not even do that and simply trust our phones to change (like going to California for a week) and we'll be right when we wake up. This is coming from the guy who has worn a non working watch for almost 6 months now, because I do what my phone says. Yea, I wear jewelry.

Side bar: one of my favorite DS debates of all time, mostly for college kids, is bar closing times. We have an extra hour at the bar! Wooooooo! It's going to be crazy!!!! Nat and I actually had our 30th bday this past Saturday when the clocks were changing and pretty sure we had two different 1am's. Not all bars allow for this ... but it was great. I think. Maybe the best thing DS has ever done for me.

To answer question 1, Wikipedia goes on to tell me daylight savings started during the First World War by somebody named George Vernon Hudson (that's our boy on the right there). BTW (bee tee dubbs) in 100 years will I be written about as Ryan Michael Marsh? Or R.M. Marsh? I hope so. 

Reading on, DS has apparently been both "praised and criticized" over the years and it has something to do with the earth in relation to the sun, but essentially, it's providing us with more light time hours. Again, is that true? It's dark out right now. Look outside, it's freakin dark, no? And it's going to be for the next 6 months until we go and do the first part of daylight savings all over again. You can't create a theory or plan that works HALF of the time. Not good. Not legit.

I have a thought - maybe it's an ongoing thing ... maybe if we didn't do it, then in like 200 years, it would be dark all the time. 

What? That can't be right. That makes no sense. From my limited knowledge and limited time actually thinking about this, DS should really be called "Summer rocks, Winter sucks" or "Screw you, it's November".

Strictly speaking as an East coaster, born, raised, and living, I am not the biggest fan of winter. Love hockey, love snow, Santa, fireplaces, Mariah's "All I Want For Christmas", all that jazz, but overall, can't really love the cold and the cold is winter. 

Nothing else really matters. 

The walks to and from work and shortened lunch walks are getting more painful every day. And darker.

Why throw darkness on top of cold? Who's benefiting? Thanks, G.V. Hudson ... good call. A theory that is half good, the whole world does twice a year, and no one challenges. Think he made bank off it?

I'm also super tired, but as Nat said, maybe that's because of the flu shots. Yet another pain to insert in humans at this time of the year. 

Someone tell me something good about DS!

Happy hump day,
Marshy