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Whomever came up with the idea of daylight savings is an asshole. Google says<\/a> the concept was originally credited to Benjamin Franklin, but the modern concept is \u201ccredited to George Hudson, an entomologist from New Zealand, who in 1895 \u2018proposed a two-hour time shift so he\u2019d have more after-work hours of sunshine to go bug hunting in the summer,\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n My knee-jerk reaction is to say that neither of these guys probably had any children, but to avoid being too reactionary, it turns out George Hudson had a daughter, and Ben Franklin had several kids, legitimate or not, it\u2019s irrelevant to this discussion.\u00a0 But Hudson existed around in the late 1800s where his wife was probably the one who had to do all of the parenting while this dork played with bugs all day and extra-day and into the night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And Ben Franklin had fucking slaves, who probably did all of the parenting for him, so it\u2019s probably a safe bet that neither of these cocksuckers had to deal with the backlash that comes with fucking with clocks and messing up the routines of young children.<\/span><\/p>\n Today, my kids were up at like 6:20 am, and I had no milk ready for them, no breakfast ready for them, and we had company whom I didn\u2019t properly brief on the morning routine, so my kids were either pissed and screaming about the lack of food waiting for them, and\/or running amok around the house because everything was awry as a result of daylight fucking savings.<\/span><\/p>\n People who try to defend it because of a single extra hour of sleep, obviously have no children, or kids that are grown past the age where they\u2019re on strict circadian rhythms. \u00a0Parents of my circumstances don\u2019t get an extra hour of sleep and in fact probably lose a net of like 4-5 hours over the span of the next week as toddlers\u2019 rhythms adjust to the dumbass rule, and come March when we lose the fucking hour back, we\u2019re all fucked all over again, but ironically thinking about it, losing the hour probably is the one time in which parents are benefitting from their kids snoozing past their routines for a little bit in most cases but that\u2019s not the point, which is daylight savings fucking blows.<\/span><\/p>\n In the few minutes of reprieve that came when getting some food on plates in front of the kids, I shot a quick text to my friends\u2019 group chat, and stated that I would vote for the orange guy in charge if he swore he would get rid of daylight savings.\u00a0 Because it\u2019s such an archaic, bullshit mandate that modern civilization is still beholden to, and I\u2019m baffled at why that is.<\/span><\/p>\n So some shithead in New Zealand wanted to chase bugs for an extra hour or two every day, why the fuck does this asshole get to dictate how the rest of the entire fucking planet should be conducting time?\u00a0 So some farmers have to do some work in the dark, big fucking whoop, chalk it up to seasonal changes, and adjust according to the calendar, I can adjust to my fucking potatoes or corn being at a higher price point at certain times of the year if it means I don\u2019t have to deal with the fucking that changing clocks entails.<\/span><\/p>\n The point is, daylight savings is fucking stupid, and I hate it so much.\u00a0 Even before kids, I wasn\u2019t really that keen on it, because by the time we\u2019re all talking about how it\u2019s happening, I\u2019m already dreading the Saturday in March when we lose it, and knowing that I\u2019m going to wake up on a Sunday morning feeling like a small hangover, worse if I actually were in a situation where I could end up with an actual one on top.\u00a0 But now that I have kids, daylight savings is a fucking nightmare, and I feel like if I\u2019m ever in a position to where I could visit the graves of Benjamin Franklin or the NZ bug dork, I\u2019d piss all over them just to express my disdain for their stupid concept.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whomever came up with the idea of daylight savings is an asshole. Google says the concept was originally credited to Benjamin Franklin, but the modern concept is \u201ccredited to George Hudson, an entomologist from New Zealand, who in 1895 \u2018proposed a two-hour time shift so he\u2019d have more after-work hours of sunshine to go bug … Continue reading Dad Brog (#123): I hate daylight savings so much<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,45,72,192,83,52,49],"class_list":["post-49655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-dad","tag-fail","tag-government","tag-kids","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49657,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49655\/revisions\/49657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}