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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. Maybe they need a way to enable DST in the cows' cron so |
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they want milking an hour later. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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