>>>The same thing happens in Europe (the daylight time, I mean). It's hard to me to imagine something more stupid than this hour change. I never understood the use of it, except the fact that everybody's tired at work for at least one month after the change in the Spring. :( Maybe somebody can give me a more reasonable explanation... ?
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>>>Vlad
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>>>> We have an anachronistic custom in most of the states of setting the clocks back or forward 1 hour twice a year. In spring we set clocks ahead to make a later daylight in the evening, that's what the 'D' in EDT is all about...
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>>Farmers...did most of their work in the spring...getting the fields cultivated, crops planted, and now sprayed. Takes alot of daylight to accomplish this task.
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>>I BELIEVE that the Sprint forward was designed to give the farmers more waking daylight.
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>>However, I've always known farmers to be up at the crack'o dawn anyway so I don't rightly understand it.
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>Daylight savings time was originally implemented in WWII to make a longer daylight workday to create weapons. It has since been reintroduced about 30 years ago because of an economic "crisis". I think it might have been when Nixon put on a wage freeze.
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>Eric K. (expat)


I don't totally believe that. When I lived in Chile from 78-81 we had daylight savings time there.