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On Sunday, 7 January 2018 13:45:49 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 13:05:20 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > > Hmm ... according to Wikipedia it was conceived in the 19th century, |
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> > > > well before the World Wars. Canada was the first place where DST |
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> > > > was introduced, in Ontario only. Tis true nevertheless that the |
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> > > > German Empire introduced it during the Great War to conserve coal, |
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> > > > 5 years later. |
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> > > I didn't know about the Canadian usage, only the wartime usage. |
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> > I've always understood it was to give farmers more evening daylight to |
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> > work in the fields and to get the harvest in. School summer breaks were |
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> > long so that the children could go out with them to help. |
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> The farmers are against it as it gives less daylight in the early hours |
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> for milking etc. |
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Perhaps so, now, but a hundred years ago they didn't have powerful |
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floodlights on their tractors to enable them to keep working after dark. It |
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was a case of all-hands-to-the-harvest until they just couldn't see any |
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more. |
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> Maybe they need a way to enable DST in the cows' cron so they want milking |
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> an hour later. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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