[Info-vax] Time change

[David J Dachtera]

JF Mezei wrote:
> 
> AEF wrote:
> > I don't know what moved the spring-ahead up, though.
> > Might have to do with saving energy.
> 
> Turn lights on in the morning now instead of evening.
> 
> Two weeks from now, days would be long enough that the time change
> wouldn't force people to turn lights on in the morning.

I've been reading all the various speculation on the reason for the time
change.

When I asked some folks recently whose primary income is from farming,
their take was that it was instituted to allow the kids to come home
from school and still have some daylight time to help with the farm
chores: planting in the spring, harvest in the fall.

D.J.D.