Connor: Blog Of The Day

Daylight savings time has been a usual event for centuries.  Many centuries ago it was just the Romans' water clocks.  The water clocks would be set back to different times for different months.  The Romans wanted to make sure that hot, summer days were longer.  Over time the methods would change more and more.

     Ben Franklin once wrote in his poor Richard's Almanac that if one goes to bed early he would be in a better mood.  This is true, and as a matter of fact Franklin also suggested to the French that they should use candles and cannons as means of knowing when morning came.  This still wasn't the start of daylight savings, but was a step in the right direction.  Daylight savings would come a few centuries later.

New Zealand actually was the first place to think of the idea.  However the idea was never put into action until the world war.  In WWI Germany and their allies had used daylight savings time.  Eventually it become such a perfect idea that it became a domestic thing rather than war strategy.  Now we use daylight savings time rather than the older methods.