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Originally Posted by bossku69
it was meant to help farmers, allowing them to get out earlier.
IMO sun should rise around 8am and go down around 9pm
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Throws milk cows off their schedule. They expected to get milked the same time everyday.
Although proposed for years, DST was 1st in effect by The Brits, in World Ward I, to save coal needed for electric lights.
Fell out of favor, the the Brits adopted it again, for WW II, (Which became Double War Time), more so factories would run in daylight and not be targets, with lighted factories targets for night-time German bombers.