On Aug 31, 2017, at 1:58 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another motivation for DST, I was told as a kid, was to encourage working > stiffs to cultivate vegetable gardens. DST was a war measure after all, and > food was a critical resource. What impact DST ever had on the dinner table is > moot, but on paper at least it gave the old man an extra hour to hoe his > tomato patch before dark.
I’ve heard that the biggest advocates for DST are the sports equipment manufacturers and golf courses, etc. Makes sense. I don’t believe any of the reasons that have been given for DST, like “energy saving” or “helping farmers”, has any real supporting evidence. Many years ago when he was still alive and writing regular columns for “The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction” Isaac Asimov had a column about DST. He said something like, “If Congress passed a law saying everyone had to get up an hour earlier, there would be rioting in the streets and widespread disobedience. Instead, they passed a law saying everyone has to set their clocks ahead an hour, and everyone just does it.” -- Pew, Curtis G [email protected] ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
