time changed

In 1895, some nut in New Zealand who collected bugs, proposed a 2 hour daylight saving shift, so he could have more time after work to collect bugs. He followed up in 1898 but still, nobody thought it was a stellar idea. Then, in 1905, an Englishman who liked to play golf, proposed advancing the clocks in the summer. A bill was created and introduced to Parliament in 1898, but again....no takers. 

In 1916/WW1, Germany and Austria started using daylight savings time as a way to conserve coal. The U.S. followed suit in 1918. After the war though, it was abandoned until WW2 and abandoned again after that. It wasn't until the 70's and the energy crisis that daylight savings time was adopted in North America and Europe.

Now, in my home state, we didn't start using daylight savings time until 2006. Which was fine by me.
Wiki says that a study done in 2008, shows that residential electricity consumption increased by 4% with an annual cost to Indiana households estimated to be 9 MILLION dollars! That's a good reason right there to get rid of it.

DST has never made any sense to me. Just because you change your clock, doesn't mean the sun is visible in the sky longer!! And frankly, I hate going to work in the dark. And I don't really like it, at the peak of summer, that the sunset is at 9:30. Which means it doesn't get dark until 10ish. It's not Alaska for heavens sake. Ugh. It's disrupted my sleep pattern and I don't get enough sleep as it is dammit!