Hey, it's Daylight Savings tomorrow!

[conuly]

Daylight Savings is absurd, but you have to go along with it, so don't forget to set forward any clocks that don't reset themselves.

Comments

[conuly]

I think the idea is not that we're saving daylight but that we're saving money by USING daylight in the evening instead of using electricity to light our homes and/or factories.

Of course, Daylight Saving used to be the British term too, but then you guys changed it.

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

But that just means we have to use the electricity in the morning instead.

[conuly]

*shrugs*

At any rate, it was promoted as a money-saving effort during the world wars.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Only for the first month or so - afterwards, the sun will rise so early that nobody will be awake before there's daylight.

... that's the theory, anyway. And, of course, irrelevant these days, as computers and other machinery need electricity all day long...