Actually in was the Germans in 1916 that implemented it first. Almost every other country adopted it shortly after, and we adopted it in 1918.
IMHO: it made sense back then when the world was not universally electrified. It does not make sense in the 21st century. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 12:41 PM Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:59 PM Curt Howland <howl...@priss.com> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> On Monday 08 March 2021, Joshua Judson Rosen was heard to say: >> > On 3/6/21 9:17 PM, Curt Howland wrote: >> > > I mean, how silly can one be to object to it being dark when you >> > > wake up, and then demanding that everyone else change the time on >> > > their clocks so it's light at 7am the way you want it to be? >> > >> > Isn't that pretty much exactly the _opposite_ of what DST does? >> >> Yes. That is given as a reason to change the clocks. Back during the >> wave of "energy saving measures" in the early 1970s, staying on DST >> through the year was objected to because, and I quote, "Children were >> waiting for the bus in the dark." >> >> > And when they moved the dates by 3 weeks in 2007, they found that the > energy changes depended on your climate. A study in California found a > 0.2% decrease in electricity. A 2008 study in Indiana had a 1% increase in > consumption. > > Of course that 1% in Indiana translated to ~ $9 million/yr. > > FWIW, changing the clocks is not an American thing. The UK developed BST > 1st. So even the UK doesn't stay on GMT! > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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