This couple in the Maldives seems to be unaware that experts predicted the islands would be underwater by now, that they are emitting CO2, and that their long haul flight probably caused a hurricane somewhere.
Live Cam Maldives – Meeru Island
Capitalism is evil. They never had these kinds of problems in the German Democratic Republic or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Can anyone really explain why some addled bureaucrats force us to change our clocks twice a year?
Not I. But I can tell you what was explained to me many years ago when I asked the question. I was told it was done for the farmers during the growing season.
I don’t think the farmers of Ben Franklin’s period cared. During the summer days they worked from sunup till sundown anyway as they had always done before standard time was introduced.
Industrial revolution interests with masses of workers in city factories would have been much clearer beneficiaries. It’s not by accident that the first national introduction happened in the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires during the Great War and this top-down governing principle finally prevailed during the Progressive Era in the United States as well.
DLST was the idea of Benjamin Franklin and the concept then and today results in economy of resources.
My mother said that during World War II it was day light saving time all year and double in the summer. I’ve never verified that one. Maybe I should do a search (-:
Yes and no:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2010-04-01-ct-wea-0402-asktom-20100401-story.html
I know they had double DLST in Britain during WWII. It’s referred to in many accounts from the time.
It’s for your convenience (sorry that’s a joke) and for projecting the illusion that government has more power than it actually does.
yeh, What’s the deal with pencil-necks telling us it’s good for us to turn clocks back. I spit on all gov’t bureaucrats.
“The Case For Socialist Reeducation Camps”
Ha ha Tony – you should be so lucky – they’ve got a lobotomy waiting for you.
Is that the tropospheric hotspot I see reflected in the water?
In Australia it is great, the State of New South Wales has DLST during summer but the neighboring State of Queensland does not (rejected in Qld because the locals don’t want their curtains to fade). At the coast, the boarder between the two States runs right down the middle of a suburban street with the town of Coolangatta (Qld) on one side and Tweed Heads (NSW) on the other. This means that on New Years Eve you can get on the piss, party and have a kiss in NSW, then walk across the road and do it all again in Qld.
And even though you fly basically directly North..
.. you can land in Brisbane before you take off from Sydney. :-)