Finally we are back to standard time. As sundial enthusiasts, we don't like the corrections and explanations daylight savings time change forces on us. Personally, I don't like to get up an hour earlier through the summer months.
An item on daylight savings time in the paper caught my attention this morning. "The idea has been around since 1784 when US almanac writer and statesman Benjamin Franklin mentioned it in an essay, suggesting that because the sun is later in summer months, quantities of candle wax could be saved if people could read by natural light later in the evening". As a polymath who designed sundials and included a sundial on the first American coin, the "Fugio" cent, Benjamin Franklin should be one of our heroes. I have now changed my opinion of the man. Daylight savings time is Franklin' folly. In spite of this, I am still pleased to have received a replica of the Fugio cent from NASS as a speaker at the Tucson conference. Roger Bailey Walking Shadow Designs N 51 W 115 -
