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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Daylight savings time moves the clock to match sunrise and the time we wake up.

    I live in the northern hemisphere and the days are shorter in the winter. The sunrise is 8 a.m. on the shortest day (December 21), while sunrise on the longest day (June 21) is 5:45 a.m.

    If I’m a farmer and I get up for my chores at 5 a.m. everyday, it’s nice and sunny in the warmer months. By the time it’s October, I wake up well before the sun so I might as well wait another hour. Lots of people had the same idea. Eventually everyone agreed on a day, called it daylight savings time and figured moving the clocks by one hour was simple enough.

    But now it’s the 21st century, we have atomic clocks and most people live in the city but it’s hard to break tradition.