Hope everyone remembered we’re off daylight savings time … which usually takes me a day.

Thinking about it and the reasoning/ history behind its inception, I turned to my old friend Google.

According to them, DST was passed by congress, signed by then president Woodrow Wilson in 1918, and implemented that year on March 31 as a way to conserve fuel during World War I.

I found that fact particularly interesting as I figured it was to lengthen daylight hours as a way to extend harvesting.

Since the last DST period ran from March 9 to last Sunday, we had eight months of longer days and only four on “regular” time.

Another fact I uncovered via Google is that 48 of our 50 states honor the time change while Hawaii and Arizona are the holdouts. Hawaii because of its position near the equator

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