On Sunday, 7 January 2018 13:45:49 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 13:05:20 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > I didn't know about the Canadian usage, only the wartime usage. > > > > I've always understood it was to give farmers more evening daylight to > > work in the fields and to get the harvest in. School summer breaks were > > long so that the children could go out with them to help. > > The farmers are against it as it gives less daylight in the early hours > for milking etc.
Perhaps so, now, but a hundred years ago they didn't have powerful floodlights on their tractors to enable them to keep working after dark. It was a case of all-hands-to-the-harvest until they just couldn't see any more. > Maybe they need a way to enable DST in the cows' cron so they want milking > an hour later. -- Regards, Peter.
