{"id":1167,"date":"2013-03-14T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2021-05-24T14:07:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:07:37","slug":"in-which-i-learned-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"In which I learned something."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, I was wrong. I was grumpy and tired, as I usually get when we lose an hour during the spring Daylight Savings Time adjustment. I vaguely remembered from somewhere in my school career that the clocks were changed for the benefit of farmers. And since I couldn&#8217;t remember exactly, I asked Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Can someone educate me as to why we still observe daylight savings time? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23coffeecoffeecoffee\">#coffeecoffeecoffee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Crampton (@dcrampton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcrampton\/status\/311092981069398016\">March 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I got one response, and I couldn&#8217;t really argue with it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p>@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcrampton\">dcrampton<\/a> in June when the sun is shining in my face at 6:30am instead of 5:30am I&#8217;m happy for DST.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George (@revgeorge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/revgeorge\/status\/311107027143364609\">March 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>My assumption was that DST was something that only the United States, and maybe a few others, still practiced. A backward, holding-on-to-the-past nonsense custom that we should really get rid of. You know, like our refusal to use the metric system.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Follow up question, is the USA the only country that observes Daylight Savings Time?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Crampton (@dcrampton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcrampton\/status\/311111853503807490\">March 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Turns out, we&#8217;re not. We&#8217;re not even one among a few. I found <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daylight_savings_time\">this article<\/a>, and this map:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/29\/DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions.png\/800px-DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions.png\" align=\"middle\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The blue bits are where DST is observed. The orange bits are where it&#8217;s <em>formally<\/em> observed. The red bits chuck it to the wind. If you count formal and actual observing, most of the world still observes DST.<\/p>\n<p>So, I learned that one of my preconceptions was not only off, but completely erroneous. The origins of DST have nothing to do with farmers. Farmers lobby against it, in fact. It&#8217;s observed over quite a bit of the world. So, in about a year from now, I&#8217;m going to try for less grumbling and more coffee, ready at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, I was wrong. I was grumpy and tired, as I usually get when we lose an hour during the spring Daylight Savings Time adjustment. 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