SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Daylight Saving Time in Utah is safe, thanks, in no small part, to a 13-year-old boy.
A House legislative committee was debating a bill Tuesday to do away with daylight saving time when 13-year-old Nathan Flynn came to the rescue.
At, 8:32 am, Tuesday, Mountain Standard Time, Representative Kenneth Sumsion explained Daylight Saving Time to a slightly perplexed audience.
Rep. Sumsion said, "Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of the blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."
That prompted a sometimes hard-to-follow debate among these legislative time bandits.
After a few minutes of this, 13-year-old Flynn's time bomb seemed ready to go off.
So, he patiently mapped out why getting rid of Daylight Saving messed with the tilting of Earth and Utah's relationship with the Equator.
Flynn told the House Committee, "You'd have your lights on for several more hours a day than you would normally, which doesn't seem smart."
Finally, when it came time to vote, a majority of lawmakers voted against the measure and with the 13-year-old.
Which led us to ask our man Flynn, "Has anyone ever told you that you seem older than 13?”
Flynn replied simply, "Yes."
