Subj : Re: February
To   : Dr. What
From : Jeff
Date : Wed Jan 26 2022 07:54:21

On 27 Jan 2022, Dr. What said the following...
 DW>  Je> Yep, if one's agrarian lifestyle requires one to get up an hour earli
 DW>  Je> or an hour later at certain times of the year, then one should just g
 DW>  Je> up one hour earlier or one hour later. There's no point in making the
 DW>  Je> rest of us miserable.
 DW> It's a myth that daylight saving time had anything to do with farms. 
 DW> The last time I checked cows and chickens don't know how to tell time.

Cows and chickens can't read clocks, true. Nor can sunrise or sunset. Neither
of them obey a set daily schedule, so humans have to adjust their own daily
schedules to suit nature.

 DW> It had more to do with companies like Ford that built assembly plants to
 DW> take advantage of natural lighting.  More natural light = less
 DW> artificial light = more cost savings.  So they wanted the clocks to
 DW> coinside with the daylight.

The adoption of Daylight Savings Time was adopted on national levels in the
US and parts of Europe during World War I and World War II to reduce fuel
usage, but it was proposed multiple times prior to World War I. Several
localities also adompted their own versions of it prior to national adoption.

Jeff.

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