Daylight Savings Time Strikes Again!!!

Its that time of year again. Benjamin Franklin proposed the idea of a standard daylight savings time but time and time zones had not even been standardized yet. The United States didn't start using Daylight Saving Time until March 19, 1918 when it was promoted by Robert Garland as the U.S. was entering World War I. It was used in times of war and optionally by each state otherwise until congress finally enacted the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 12, 1966.

Since then we manage to cram more duties into daylight hours during the summer to be a more productive society. Personally I don't care for it. Losing that hour of sleep the first night of DST manages to throw me off for several weeks. On top of that, people get even more overworked during the summer months than they usually are in the winter. Its just another example of how corporate hands always seem to be in the politicians pie. If there was nothing to be gained for our capitalistic society, we wouldn't have bothered passing the law to begin with. It all boils down to money. Which means I dedicate today's rant to the corrupt foundations that Daylight Savings Time seems to actually be based on.