The notion of playing God with sunlight originated with one of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin. He argued that people would be more productive and waste less candlelight at night if they just woke up earlier, and this could be accomplished by tricking the sun into rising earlier. Keep in mind, this is logic from the same man who came up with ?air baths,? a morning ritual in which he sat next to an open window in the middle of winter, totally naked, and waited for inspiration to come.
Daylight saving didn?t come into vogue until the early 20th century, where it was introduced as an energy-saving method during wartime. When instituted by President Roosevelt, it wasn?t called daylight saving but ?War Time,? which is just another example of how much cooler everything was during our grandparents? time. (?Don?t forget to set your clocks ahead tonight for WAR TIME!?)
It became standard practice in 1966, and now it?s just something we all do without thinking, like hiding painted eggs at Easter or not wearing white after Labor Day. The idea that we do it to save energy is just flat-out wrong. After all, we're really just intelligent apes. Actually, we're more like Pavlov's dogs, if the truth be told.
Note: folks in Arizona are the only folks who don't mess which this s*it.