[OFF TOPIC] [DST-sucks] (was: DST changes in 2007)

[Ben Scott]

On 10/19/06, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> Blame it on FDR.  It was a wartime thing to get more daylight working hours
> into the factories.

  I'm not expert on history, but I do believe artificial lighting
existing in the 1940's.

  I might also point out that one does not need to change the clocks
in order to make use of daylight.  Here's a novel idea: If you need
daylight to work, work when there's daylight, regardless of what a
dial hanging on a wall says.

  Yes, this is bitching long after the fact.  What else is new?  :)

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_savings_time#History

  That talks about DST being reinstated for WWII.  Earlier, the
article states that DST was originally instated when the time zone
system was created, during WWI, but doesn't really get into much
detail on why.  It does state that the idea was very unpopular at the
time, though -- apparently people back then got up when they wanted
to, not when a clock was at some arbitrary time.  What a concept.

> Now that most people in the US are not farmers, the excuse is schoolkids
> walking to school in the dark.  Like any kids are actually allowed to walk
> to school by parents.

  I'm sure we can work terrorism into the argument somehow, too.

-- Ben