Daylight Savings Time

The fateful day day has arrived and we all "spring forward" one hour for the start of Daylight Savings Time. In October 1884, delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, D.C., for the International Meridian Conference. They agreed to establish a single world meridian, which passed through the Greenwich Observatory, and create a universal day that began at midnight Greenwich Mean Time.

The delegates also discussed the creation of a worldwide system of 24 time zones, each one hour apart. Though the measure was not passed by the conference, it was gradually adopted by most countries over the next five decades.

The above is a brief history of the establishment of time zones. In the early 1800s almost every town had their own time zone so to speak and that forced railroads to have several clocks in each railroad station which at times created much confusion as to when, where & at what time the train departed. Daylight Savings times was started in 1918 for the usual political reasons (in other words who knows why) and we still have it today to give us more light which should result in less use of energy. I know my father liked it as it us more time to work cattle and do repairs on the ranch/farm before dark. Does Daylight Savings Time really accomplish anything, who knows?

Have a fun day & don't take no wooden politicians.