Daylight saving time (DST) is a misnomer. There is actually no daylight being saved. In effect, what happens during daylight saving time is that an hour of daylight is moved from the morning to the evening according to the clock….
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My father, a south Texas rancher, never liked daylight saving time, those months when we all turn our clocks ahead for one hour. “It’s a prime example of how the lobbyists run the country.” He had a point, although said…
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Most Americans assume that Daylight Saving Time (there is not an “s” on Saving) is a relatively new concept; however, Benjamin Franklin is credited with the initial idea in 1784. William Willet, of Great Britain, did take the idea seriously…
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Daylight saving time (DST) in the states and nations that make use of it now, is a deliberate modification of the framework of numerical values we assign to time to segment the period of our planet Earth’s rotational spin, what…
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Science does not, by nature, undermine its own search for answers. It might seem so, from what seems to be a growing movement away from science, fuelled by the growing list of concepts and phenomena which people want explained, and…
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Daylight Saving Time (DST) was proposed by William Willett, an avid outdoorsman that liked to spend his days playing golf. The concept of DST was inspired from a satirical piece authored by Benjamin Franklin when he was an American envoy…
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2008 has been a year of innovation like no other. We have seen the world’s fastest computer, aptly named Roadrunner, break the petaflop barrier, performing more than a quadrillion calculations per second. A new camera specially developed for the blind…
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The first person to come up with the idea of daylight saving time was Benjamin Franklin in 1784. Daylight Saving Time started during World War 1 when the United States moved the clocks ahead one hour to save energy because…
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Many people look forward to the “time change” when Daylight Saving Time comes around each year because it heralds in the promise of spring. The media is full of encouraging information about the benefits derived from Daylight Saving Time. A…
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When daylight saving time (DST) was first proposed, its rationale was to save money by taking better advantage of the longer daylight hours from spring to fall. At that time, artificial lighting was the result of candles and oil lamps….
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