Wow, sounds like bumper crop days on the dying and birthing on the 4th and 15th...... :-) :-)

Dave,
You can bet the very first Union guy was pretty sure he was owed two weeks pay...

Shaun

/Not trying to start an argument
//Just thought it was funny
///Loves the slashy

:-)

I hate when someone will ask me at the race track here what time the race starts. I will tell them the time of the start, and 7 times out of 10 they will follow up with, "Is that your time or mine?" How would I know what "their" time is? Sheesh, I am doing good to know what I do know, I should'nt be expected to be clarvoient.

Patrick

Ben Franklin's idea about saving candles and oil may have been where it all started, but you can blame the merchant classes for this one. It actually has nothing to do with the farmers.... they wish it would go away just as much as every other sane person would. The mercantile brain trust saw how much more people were spending on their way home from work during the summer time when the days lasted longer. They whined to the governments of the time (yes, both Upper and Lower Canadas as well as the 13 colonies) in a classic example of what would come to be known as 'lobbying' , to have daylight savings time brought in to allow people to shop more at the end of the day by making daylight last as long as they could. Blame not the tillers of the fields, 'tis the shoppe keepers that should be hanged....!!!

I'm just sayin.... :-)

For more on this, see this Snopes article

Well met and well played Kenneth.

Thanks,

Shaun

/Still loves the slashy
:-)

The urge to switch to permanent BST (British Summer Time = GMT +1) is strong with our comedy politicians. Amazing what the urge to Do Something will lead to.

Not much fun if you live in West Wales, when I worked in Carmarthen in the winter of 1989-90 it was still dark at 8AM GMT which would mean a really short mornings on BST.