Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Still Science but also some history....WAIT WHAT TIME IS IT?????

As everyone knows Sunday we had to set back out clocks....YEAHHH WE GOT AN EXTRA HOUR OF SLEEP!!! 

First off its not daylight savingS day, but its daylight saving day.

Me personally I would rather lose one hour of sleep one day for it to be light out later than 5pm each day of the year.

 Heres a cool little article about how Daylight saving time works. It starts from the big bang and goes on to the history of humans with time. It also quoted about Benjamin Franklin.

 "Benjamin Franklin first conceived of DST in 1784, while serving as U.S. ambassador to France. According to the story, he woke one day at 6 a.m. and noticed how many of his fellow Parisians were still in bed, with shutters drawn to keep out the light. As a result, people were sleeping during sunlit hours and burning candles longer into the evening. What if, Franklin wondered, people adjusted their schedules to make better use of the longer summer days? Wouldn't that save large amounts of tallow and wax?"

Its funny because I was listening to a NPR show and they were saying that Benjamin Franklin would never wake up before 12pm because they would always go out at night! The only reason he found out the sun comes out early is because his butler left the blinds open the night before. So basically they were calling him a drunk!

Being that the seasons are changing, trees will be dropping their leaves and animals will be foraging for winter food. Can spring come already!!

Heres the link
HOW DAYLIGHT SAVING DAY WORKS

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