Posted
4/05/2004 05:25:00 PM
by Douglas
If there's a human being alive on the planet that can provide a coherent justification for
daylight saving time, I'd love to hear it.
In an effort to conserve resources for the efforts of World War I, Congress approved a law that altered each U. S. time zone's standard time by moving clocks ahead by one hour. The plan, known as Daylight Saving Time (DST) lasted only seven months and was very unpopular because most Americans at that time awoke earlier and went to bed later than we do now. The law was eventually repealed.
It's not about farmers, since they work with whatever daylight is available, regardless of what the clock says. It's not about energy conservation, or we wouldn't have 11 MPG SUVs and electric nose hair trimmers. Then why? Why do we purposefully screw with something so basic as "what time is it?" twice a year?
Makes me want to move to Arizona.