Just in case anybody forgot.  It is 10:05PM Eastern.

nobody even told me...

i saw the time was about 1:30am last night and decided its time to go to bed. so i get off the computer and go brush my teeth and get my music and whatnot, then as i get in bed i see my alarm clock reads 2:40 something and i'm like WTH!?!??? what was i doing for an hour?? then i checked my cellphone and saw the time was actually 1:40 and remembered daylight saving time.

why can't they just leave the d**n clocks alone... >

nobody even told me...

i saw the time was about 1:30am last night and decided its time to go to bed. so i get off the computer and go brush my teeth and get my music and whatnot, then as i get in bed i see my alarm clock reads 2:40 something and i'm like WTH!?!??? what was i doing for an hour?? then i checked my cellphone and saw the time was actually 1:40 and remembered daylight saving time.

why can't they just leave the d**n clocks alone... >

Because the government says so....

Its good so the kids don't have to wait for the bus or walk to school in the dark.  I don't mind it for that reason.

Here's an interesting trivia question:  What was the first country to adopt daylight savings time and why?

Here's an interesting trivia question: What was the first country to adopt daylight savings time and why?

USA.

Because we wanted to be complex, and be different? :-?

It's Germany though, during the war iirc

I think that's right. Did you know that off of the top of your head?

If so, that's pretty impressive.

Yes, I did.

Now we know who and when, but why?

Now we know who and when, but why?

Supposedly it conserves electricity. At least that why we do it here in the U.S. 

I thought it originated to help out farmers in some way. Don't remember how it helped/helps them, or if this is even true.

Too lazy to google it.

Germany did it in WWI for 2 reasons: 

1. To save coal and

2. To gain a military edge.

Obviously #2 didn't work. 

I thought it originated to help out farmers in some way. Don't remember how it helped/helps them, or if this is even true.

Too lazy to google it.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Daylight+Savings+Time - Here you lazy bum!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

I thought it originated to help out farmers in some way. Don't remember how it helped/helps them, or if this is even true.

Too lazy to google it.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Daylight+Savings+Time - Here you lazy bum!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

tl;dr

j/k thanks man

haha no problem! I have to use lmgtfy.com any chance I get

I heard that it gave farmers more time to tend to their crops, but I really have no idea.

When I was working on my undergrad, I was a student in southern Indiana. Portions of the state do not recognize DST...that got a little weird. Well, that and the whole dry Sunday thing.

I remember trying to secure some beverages for the first Packer game of the season, and we had to drive with a legal foreign exchange student waaay into KY for suds. That sucked, as I felt pretty crappy about wasting Tsuyoshi's morning.