What Did You Do With Your Hour?

Daylight Savings Time officially ended at 2:00 am today. We hopefully remembered to turn our clocks back, thus re-gaining the whole precious hour we surrendered back on March 9th. Thank you, Lord! I needed that hour right about now.

Although Benjamin Franklin did suggest the idea of daylight savings time (on one of his sojourns to Paris he told the citizens to save candles by rising earlier to take advantage of the early sunlight), the modern version of DST was proposed by two different men: New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, who proposed it in 1895 and English builder and outdoorsman William Willett, in 1905. The first country to implement the practice, however, was Germany in 1916 to conserve the usage of coal during WWI. It was widely adopted in the United States during the 1970s due to the energy crisis. Some states, such as Arizona and Hawaii (and in the past, Indiana) do not observe DST.

I always look forward to the end of DST avidly. I want my hour back! I need my hour back! This year especially as I’m in the middle of a theatre production and am getting a lot less sleep. I also have a writing deadline looming, so I’m taking my hour working on these final edits. I’ve sort of doubled my hour this year: I went to bed at 11:00 pm last night (unheard of!) and got up at 6:30 am this morning. So I got extra sleep AND now I get an extra hour to write! Heaven!

So what did you do with your extra hour? Read? Write? Sleep? Party? Watch T.V.? Defy curfew? The possibilities are endless. But hopefully you will enjoy your extra hour as much as I plan to enjoy mine!

Filed under: Holidays, Jenna Jaxon