Daylight Savings Time STINKS

I would have posted this Monday, but I was to busy adapting to the time change. I cannot think of one good reason for us to have the sun stay up until 9:00 pm or later. For those of us that have to go to bed early so that we can be at work at 5:00 AM or 6:00 or 7:00 it is a pain to go to bed while it is still light out. It would be so very nice to have a few months where we actually saw the sun BEFORE we went to work.

I have been cursing Benjamin Franklin over this all week only to discover that although he is blamed for it, he didn't actually propose that it actually be done. Franklin may have made the first reference, but it was in an essay "Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle."

We actually have Europeans to blame for this. Daylight Savings Time's first real advocate was British architect William Willett in 1907. The first people crazy enough to put it into regular practice were the Germans to conserve fuel during WWI.

I really do not see how this continues to save feul and I do not see any good for the children who have to wait for their school busses in the dark and don't want to go to bed early enough to get adequate rest because the sun is still out.

Not that school kids play outside that much anymore. They are all too busy with PS2 and X-BOX to play outside anymore.