Controlling daylight because you want to have more (in a British accent) leisure time. Come on. Modern civilization is such a control freak.
Either way, the dark hasn’t stopped us yet. We invented light bulbs to stay up all hours, mechanical clocks to fight our biological clocks, third shifts to work all hours, 24-hour fast-food chains to eat out anytime, 24-hour grocery stores to finish our errands and digital video recorders to watch television programs at their un-televised time.
Who needs daylight-saving time when we do what we want, when we want, any time we want? I’m just saying. You can’t control us daylight-saving time. Now everyone with me shake the “old-man ‘you darn kids’ fist of rage” in the air!
Forgive me for not knowing, but who benefits from daylight-saving time? I ask people and I hear crickets. I’m not a morning person, so I should be glad to have an added hour of daylight to the afternoon. Yet, I should be more glad if I could continue sleeping the measly one hour. Is it worth it to reschedule sleep, meetings, travel, church and television programming? Daylight-saving time is even life threatening if you aren’t careful with resetting medical devices or taking medication.
We can blame the whole daylight controversy on a man named George Vernon Hudson, a postal clerk, entomologist and astronomer. He’s the one who wanted more daylight in the afternoon to hunt bugs during his leisure time. Mr. Hudson is quite an interesting individual. A quick biography may be found at “Dictionary of the New Zealand Biography,” online.
Born in 1867 in England, Hudson was one of six children. His mother died when he was 2. While he had a nice home life, he had “bitter experiences at school,” bullied for his natural history interests. At 9, he began collecting insects. At 12, he started writing and illustrating a book of insects. He eventually moved to New Zealand where other family had moved.
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