This concept of moving the clock ahead one hour in the spring and back in the fall has long perplexed me. If we followed our natural tendency to get up with the sun and then go to bed as it sets the entire rigmarole could be avoided. However, this simple approach to implementing daylight saving time (DST) doesn't hold up in today's work world. That plus the lights we now use with the flip of a switch, make this time-shift necessary. But I wanted to read a bit more about it before letting it go. Apparently the concept of DST like most things started a long time ago and more recently started almost simultaneously in Germany and New Zealand in the late 19th century. It was dreamt up to save candles and lantern oils. During WWI much of Europe and North America instituted DST to conserve coal for the war effort. However, after that war, the U.S. left DST behind until WWII and then it was on again, off again until 1966 when the Uniform Time ...
Getting it together one stitch at a time.