I figure that in winter, the days are short enough that shifting the time around just changes whether they'll be walking in the day in the morning or in the evening.
Most of the point was to save energy, and it's not even doing that. They should just bloody leave it alone.
I also find it rather amusing that one of the early seed for the idea was a satirical letter published by Benjamin Franklin while he was an envoy in France, proposing that Parisians economized candles by getting up earlier to catch the morning light. But this was more about cutting down on the partying at night, and the whole "early risers are healthy and wealthy" thing. Incidentally, he wasn't proposing to change the time (I guess he knew Parisians weren't even looking at the clock!), but ringing church bells, firing cannons in the morning and other such things.
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Date: 2007-05-21 06:48 pm (UTC)Most of the point was to save energy, and it's not even doing that. They should just bloody leave it alone.
I also find it rather amusing that one of the early seed for the idea was a satirical letter published by Benjamin Franklin while he was an envoy in France, proposing that Parisians economized candles by getting up earlier to catch the morning light. But this was more about cutting down on the partying at night, and the whole "early risers are healthy and wealthy" thing. Incidentally, he wasn't proposing to change the time (I guess he knew Parisians weren't even looking at the clock!), but ringing church bells, firing cannons in the morning and other such things.