Scott Lattimer

Daylight Savings Time

Over the past weekend, Daylight Savings Time just began causing the clock to jump ahead one hour making me lose my precious sleep time. This got me thinking, who decided to have Daylight Savings Time? I went to my parents to see if they had known but they couldn’t come up with any helpful information. I decided to take matters into my own hands. I started searching around the web to see if there was any information on this puzzling topic but unfortunately I wasn’t able to find anything. I was about to just give up the search when I was talking to my friend and he said to search BBC for a news article that was supposedly on this topic. I went to their website and searched for Daylight Savings Time only to a whole article that answered all my questions. The article interviewed Dr. John Cannon, a professor at the University of Oxford in England, and talked about the real reason how it all started. Turns out, Daylight Savings Time started off originally as a prank. In London where the world’s times are officially kept, Sueliman Akbar, one of the employees in the late night shift, thought it would be funny to change the clock’s to be one hour ahead to mess with people all over the world. It turned out his prank failed since everyone loved having the sun rise an hour earlier than usual so the International Committee of Time (ICT) decided to declare Daylight Savings Time a yearly event.