Subj : Re: Daylight Savings Time
To   : Nightfox
From : Dr. What
Date : Fri Feb 25 2022 02:01:22

-=> Nightfox wrote to The Millionaire <=-

 Ni> There's still the same amount of sun during the day.  I've heard a
 Ni> saying where daylight saving time is like cutting a strip of blanket
 Ni> from the top and sewing it to the bottom of the blanket and expecting
 Ni> the blanket to be longer.

The whole purpose of Daylight "Saving" Time was to adjust our normal work hours
to correspond to when the sun was up.

While Franklin proposed it way back when, it really didn't get pushed until
companies like Ford created factories designed to take advantage of natural
light (if it's sunny in the building, we don't need to pay for electric
lights).

I do find it humorous to think that it was easier to make everyone change their
clocks than to make the UAW change their work hours.


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