Still groggy after 2 cups of coffee, I was about to type something crude and unforgiving: "daylights savings time can suck a dick." AH! But then I remembered what it's like in autumn when it's windy and chilly and it is getting dark so early and the Daylight Savings Time God give us one more hour of sunshine on our chapped lips, one more hour to stay up late, one more hour to sleep in and cuddle. In the spring-time, Daylight Savings Time gets a bad rap, but let us remember what a friend he is in the fall.
***A Short History of Daylight Savings Time***
The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, "An Economical Project." During World War I, in an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria took time by the balls, and began saving daylight at 11 p.m. on the 30th of April, 1916, by advancing the hands of the clock one hour until the following October plan was not formally adopted in the United States until 'An Act to preserve daylight and provide standard time for the United States' was enacted on March 19, 1918. During World War II, President Roosevelt instituted year-round Daylight Saving Time, called 'War Time.' From 1945 to 1966, there was no federal law about Daylight Saving Time. So states and localities were free to choose whether to observe Daylight Saving Time and could choose when it began and ended. This of course caused confusion. It was on January 4th 1974, Nixon signed into law the Daylight Saving Time Energy Act. But it wasn't until as late as 1986 that the daylight savings time was regulated to work the way we know it today. Read more about the history of Daylight Savings Time
But if you hate Mr. Daylight Savings Time, you arn't alone. The Drive-In Movie Association Lobbied against the government movement in 1949, arguing that it would force the showing of movies to be later at night.
If you love Drive-in movie theaters you aren't alone either! The Big and Beautiful, local, Baltimore Drive-in theater, Bengies is supposed to open this Friday, April 9th!!! Bengies has the largest movie screen on the east coast measuring 52' x 120'. This place totally rules. If you are going to be home for Passover or Easter and want to go to a Drive-In somewhere else in the country you can search for drive-ins of the past or present.
So, friends,enemies, vast internet,
this post (as many others before it) proves what a nerdy geek I am.
I love you.
***A Short History of Daylight Savings Time***
The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, "An Economical Project." During World War I, in an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria took time by the balls, and began saving daylight at 11 p.m. on the 30th of April, 1916, by advancing the hands of the clock one hour until the following October plan was not formally adopted in the United States until 'An Act to preserve daylight and provide standard time for the United States' was enacted on March 19, 1918. During World War II, President Roosevelt instituted year-round Daylight Saving Time, called 'War Time.' From 1945 to 1966, there was no federal law about Daylight Saving Time. So states and localities were free to choose whether to observe Daylight Saving Time and could choose when it began and ended. This of course caused confusion. It was on January 4th 1974, Nixon signed into law the Daylight Saving Time Energy Act. But it wasn't until as late as 1986 that the daylight savings time was regulated to work the way we know it today. Read more about the history of Daylight Savings Time
But if you hate Mr. Daylight Savings Time, you arn't alone. The Drive-In Movie Association Lobbied against the government movement in 1949, arguing that it would force the showing of movies to be later at night.
If you love Drive-in movie theaters you aren't alone either! The Big and Beautiful, local, Baltimore Drive-in theater, Bengies is supposed to open this Friday, April 9th!!! Bengies has the largest movie screen on the east coast measuring 52' x 120'. This place totally rules. If you are going to be home for Passover or Easter and want to go to a Drive-In somewhere else in the country you can search for drive-ins of the past or present.
So, friends,enemies, vast internet,
this post (as many others before it) proves what a nerdy geek I am.
I love you.
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