Bill-
Maybe I should have said it was invented in France by Benjamin
Franklin. According to my history book, it was tried out while he was
still living near Paris, maybe not all over France, but in some
places, and the result was unfavorable.
The Germans, not being too smart about such things, put it into effect
during WW1, as you said, and the rest is history.
The moral of the story is that if you let government rule your life,
they will screw it up.
Neal
On Mar 18, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
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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