On Mar 18, 2012, at 13:02 , Neal Hammon wrote: > Anne: > > You set your clock for DST in the wrong direction ! > > What a great idea. I wish I had thought of that. > > Maybe if we all did that next year, we could rid ourselves of this useless, > primitive custom. > > It was invented in France, but the first year that it was tried out, they > decided it was stupid, and quit doing it. I guess the French are just smarter > than us.
Not to be too persnickety, but this sounds like an odd rendition of history. From what I remembered from science classes, Ben Franklin first proposed daylight savings time in France in the late 1700's. From what I read out on the web (doubting that the Frence ever did much with Franklin's idea), nobody did much with the idea until the late 1800's, and then all proposals fell flat. The Germans the first to actually implement it, using it during WWI to conserve energy. etc. Bill
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