And the Times.... They are A-Changing!

Thank you, my friend Ron, for this great meme!

 #103 November 6:  This weekend we will “fall back” and change the time.  Dark will move from about 6:30 to 5:30 p.m.  I hate it and all research points to it being unhealthy.  An article in today’s paper said that the first attempt to change the time was suggested by Ben Franklin in 1784 to save candles!!  It wasn’t enacted until 1918 as an energy saving experiment. It only lasted 7 months.  It was reinstituted during WWII and named War Time and finally codified in the Uniform Time Act of 1966, though states were allowed to opt out and Hawaii and most of Arizona took advantage of the loop hole.  The Sunshine Act has been offered in Congress and passed by the Senate for several years and most Americans support having just one universal time without seasonal changes.  However, the House has yet to take it up.  The article offered a compromise:  adjust just ½ hour and leave it there.  Sounds sensible to me!