Daylight Savings Time Begins Today!

Daylight Savings Time begins tonight. Tonight at 2am, we're supposed to turn our clocks ahead one hour. (It is also suggested that this is a good time to check the batteries in your smoke detector(s)).

Even though I have mentioned about daylight savings time in this blog before, I have also found interesting the fact that we didn't always have daylight savings time!

It is something that the government started a long time ago and its purpose was to help save energy. It was thought that if people had more daylight hours then they would use less electricity - meaning lights and such. But it was also revealed by researchers that people actually used more electricity instead!

I thought that that was interesting and seeing that it was the government that came up with this idea I wasn't too surprised at the actual outcome of this result.

As someone that does grant research (including government grant programs), I find that there are a lot of ironies in things dealing with the government!

There was also similar research done that said when daylight savings time happens people lose more sleep and thusly can't function as well.

Since I work from home doing grant research and consultations, I pretty much make up my own hours even though even when one works from home they should still have a work hour schedule.

So there you have it - an interesting fact (that I learned) about daylight savings time!