Ha.  Blame it on Ben.. Franklin
On Mar 13, 2016 4:59 PM, "Adam Moffett" <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I changed my 6 year old's watch to the new time a few minutes ago. He's
> really upset that bedtime rolled up on him an hour sooner than he
> expected....poor bastard.
>
> This event reminded me that while I've read all the justifications for
> changing the time twice a year, I find them all to be stupid.
> There's no way it saves any significant amount of energy.
> Farmers can't possibly care what the hour on the clock says: whether the
> clock says 5 or 6 it's still "milk-the-cows-o'clock".
> Even if it saved any coal consumption during WWII, that's irrelevant today.
> Some people might prefer to have an extra hour of light in the
> evening.....get up an hour earlier?
>
> Maybe I'll vote for Trump if he promises he can get rid of daylight
> savings.
>

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