On Sunday, 7 January 2018 12:06:28 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 11:51:33 +0000, Mick wrote: > > > > That was apparently after the white man tried to explain to him > > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > > "advantages" of Daylight Saving Time. > > > > > > Yes. Which, of course it doesn't. Save anything, I mean. > > > > It 'saves' the socio-economic model whereby aggressively promoted > > consumerism attempts to secure a continuation of artificially enhanced > > cross-border trade, at ever increasing rates. > > Although it was actually introduce, first by Germany then by Britain, in > 1915 to improve productivity for the war effort. Britain also introduced > licencing hours at the same time to avoid workers turning up hungover.
Hmm ... according to Wikipedia it was conceived in the 19th century, well before the World Wars. Canada was the first place where DST was introduced, in Ontario only. Tis true nevertheless that the German Empire introduced it during the Great War to conserve coal, 5 years later. -- Regards, Mick
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