{"id":1126,"date":"2010-03-15T02:45:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T09:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2013-06-14T20:59:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T03:59:35","slug":"its-daylight-saving-time-not-daylight-savings-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/its-daylight-saving-time-not-daylight-savings-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s \u201cDaylight Saving Time\u201d Not \u201cDaylight Savings Time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><div id=\"attachment_1135\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/worldDSTmap.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1135\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1135\" title=\"World Daylight Saving Time Map\" alt=\"World Daylight Saving Time Map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/worldDSTmap-e1268645297673.gif\" width=\"340\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Daylight Saving Time Map<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com' title='Interesting Facts'>Today I found out<\/a> it&#8217;s &#8220;daylight saving time&#8221;, not &#8220;daylight savings time&#8221;. \u00a0 &#8220;Daylight saving time&#8221; uses the present participle &#8220;saving&#8221; as an adjective, as in &#8220;labor saving device&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"bonusfacts\">Bonus<\/span> Facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ben Franklin often gets credit for being the &#8220;genius&#8221; who came up with daylight saving time. \u00a0Interestingly though, the letter he proposed something like what we now call daylight saving time and which was eventually published in 1784 under the title,\u00a0<a title=\"An Economical Project\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dzkPAAAAYAAJ&amp;lpg=PA183&amp;ots=rh8awipHyo&amp;dq=An%20Economical%20Project%20Ben%20Franklin&amp;pg=PA183#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"><em>An Economical Project<\/em><\/a>, was actually a witty satire meant to entertain some of his friends, not to be taken seriously on any account. \u00a0It&#8217;s quite\u00a0humorous, <a title=\"An Economical Project\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dzkPAAAAYAAJ&amp;lpg=PA183&amp;ots=rh8awipHyo&amp;dq=An%20Economical%20Project%20Ben%20Franklin&amp;pg=PA183#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">click here to give it a read<\/a> (scroll down a bit for the start). \u00a0In it, he also proposes taxing people who have shutters on their windows, rationing candles, and waking people as soon as the sun comes up by ringing church bells and firing cannons. \u00a0With Franklin&#8217;s\u00a0humor\u00a0though, he probably would find it hilarious that many countries in the world eventually decided it was an idea that made sense. \u00a0Although it&#8217;s quite clear he&#8217;s joking around in this paper, he was known for putting more subtle jokes in many of his other papers that only the most\u00a0astute\u00a0would recognize. \u00a0He was so famous for this that when they were deciding who should write the Declaration of Independence, they chose Jefferson over the significantly more qualified and respected Franklin, as they feared Franklin would embed subtle humor in it that wouldn&#8217;t be recognized until it was too late to change<sup>1<\/sup>. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>The modern day version of DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson in 1895.<\/li>\n<li>The credit though for the modern day DST system is often incorrectly given to William Willett who independently thought up and lobbied for DST in 1905. \u00a0He was riding through London one day in the early morning and noticed that a good portion of London&#8217;s population slept through several hours of the sunlit summer days. \u00a0Willet lobbied for DST until his death in 1915. \u00a0Ironically, it was one year later in 1916 that certain European countries began adopting DST.<\/li>\n<li>Daylight saving time once single handedly thwarted a terrorist attack, causing the would-be terrorists to blow themselves up instead of other people. \u00a0What happened was, in September 1999, the West Bank was on daylight saving time while Israel was on standard time; \u00a0West Bank terrorists prepared bombs set on timers and smuggled them to their associates in Israel. \u00a0As a result, the bombs exploded one hour sooner than the terrorists in Israel thought they would, resulting three terrorists dying instead of the two busloads of people who were the intended targets.<\/li>\n<li>Fortune magazine estimates that the recent seven week extension of DST\u00a0yields\u00a0an extra 30 million dollars for 7-11 stores.<\/li>\n<li>In March 2007, an honor student in Pennsylvania was accused of threatening his school with a bomb. \u00a0It was later found he had actually called an automated school phone line to get information about class schedules; \u00a0someone else made the bomb threat exactly an hour later, but, due to DST, the time seemed to match up to when the honor student called.<\/li>\n<li>Daylight saving time was first used during WWI to conserve fuel. \u00a0The theory was that by adding an hour of sunlight to people&#8217;s normal &#8220;awake time&#8221;, it would cut down on the nations need for artificial light. \u00a0This may have actually been effective then, but because of our vastly different energy usage today (only 3.5 percent of our energy usage today goes towards lighting), it has generally been shown that the effect on energy usage is negligible; though it has been shown to be a profitable thing for many stores, particularly those that sell product related to outdoor leisure activities.<\/li>\n<li>Many ancient civilizations used to adjust daily schedules to the sun, though not in the way we do it with DST. \u00a0For example, it was common then to divide the day into 12 equal hours, regardless of the length of the day. \u00a0So how long an hour lasted varied based on location and time of the year. \u00a0To\u00a0accommodate\u00a0this, Roman water clocks used different scales for different months of the year.<\/li>\n<li>Daylight saving time once got a man out of being drafted for the Vietnam War. \u00a0When drafted, he argued that standard time, not daylight saving time, was the official time for recording births in his state of Delaware at the time of his birth. \u00a0Thus, he was actually born the previous day using standard time, so he should have had a higher draft lottery number. \u00a0This defense worked and he didn&#8217;t have to go to war.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you liked this article, you might also enjoy our new popular podcast, The BrainFood Show (<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-brainfoodshow\/id1350586459\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/36xpXQMPVXhWJzMoCHPJKd\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/playmusic.app.goo.gl\/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&#038;isi=691797987&#038;ius=googleplaymusic&#038;apn=com.google.android.music&#038;link=https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/m\/Insimdi4g6puyyr4qbt6tup5b6m?t%3DThe_BrainFood_Show%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Music<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/feed\/brainfood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feed<\/a>), as well as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/its-just-deserts-not-just-desserts\/\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s &#8220;Just Deserts&#8221;, Not &#8220;Just Desserts&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/the-difference-between-an-acronym-and-an-initialism\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Difference Between an Acronym and an Initialism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/when-to-use-i-e-versus-e-g\/\" target=\"_blank\">When to Use I.E. vs E.G.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/ben-franklin-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 Interesting Things You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know About Ben Franklin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69efe567df6a7\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Expand for References:\"    >Expand for References:<\/span><div id=\"target-id69efe567df6a7\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<ol>\n<li><a title=\"Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography and Other Writings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0199554900?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=vicastingcom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0199554900\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography and Other Writings (Oxford World&#8217;s Classics)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"An Economical Project\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dzkPAAAAYAAJ&amp;lpg=PA183&amp;ots=rh8awipHyo&amp;dq=An%20Economical%20Project%20Ben%20Franklin&amp;pg=PA183#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">An Economical Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Daylight Saving Time\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daylight_saving_time\" target=\"_blank\">Daylight Saving Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Ben Franklin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historynet.com\/benjamin-franklin-americas-inventor.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Franklin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Daylight Saving Time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/health\/family-health\/sleep\/articles\/2009\/03\/03\/13-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-daylight-saving-time.html\" target=\"_blank\">13 Things You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know About Daylight Saving Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"History of Time in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_time_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">History of Time in the United States<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Incidents and Anecdotes on Daylight Saving Time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webexhibits.org\/daylightsaving\/k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Incidents\u00a0and Anecdotes on Daylight Saving Time<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com' title='Interesting Facts'>Today I found out<\/a> it&#8217;s &#8220;daylight saving time&#8221;, not &#8220;daylight savings time&#8221;. \u00a0 &#8220;Daylight saving time&#8221; 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