On Jul 18, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Tom Holmes wrote: > Someone somewhere is making some money off of this [DST] scam.
>From an NPR interview with Michael Downing, author of "Spring Forward: The >Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time" <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7779869> > Mr. DOWNING: Well, because when we have an hour of sunlight after work, > Americans tend to go shopping. The first and most persistent lobby for > Daylight Saving in this country was the Chamber of Commerce, because they > understood that if their department stores were lit up, people would be > tempted by them. > > In 1986, Congress gave us an extra month of Daylight Saving Time. That's when > we went from six to seven months, which is the period we've been living with > recently. In that congressional hearings, the golf industry alone - these are > the industry estimates - told Congress one additional month of daylight > saving was worth $200 million in additional sales of golf clubs and greens > fees. The barbecue industry said it was worth $100 million in additional > sales of grills and charcoal briquettes. > > BLOCK: This may be kind of an urban legend, but I thought I had heard that > one of the backers behind extending Daylight Saving Time into the beginning > of November was the candy industry, and it all had to do with Halloween. > > Mr. DOWNING: This is no kind of legend. This is the truth. For 25 years, > candy-makers have wanted to get trick-or-treat covered by Daylight Saving, > figuring that if children have an extra hour of daylight, they'll collect > more candy. In fact, they went so far during the 1985 hearings on Daylight > Saving as to put candy pumpkins on the seat of every senator, hoping to win a > little favor. Best regards, -Steve -- Steve Byan <[email protected]> Littleton, MA 01460 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
