Actually, that's somewhat not true, about farming. In fact, farmers were a vocal and powerful constituency railing against Daylight Saving Time during the Wilson administration in the 19-teens. It's really always been about saving energy, and secondarily about promoting commerce. More recently, it's also about traffic and crime. Early on, Ben Franklin, who could legitimately claim credit for inventing Daylight Saving Time, calculated how many candles could be saved by using Daylight Saving. And how much money. Department stores many years later were the guiding force behind Daylight Saving in non war times. They figured people would be more likely to shop after work if they had daylight. They were right, incidentally. Other large stores and plant nurseries and amusement parks and golf courses and small shops and restaurants and such now officially support DST, because it means more business for them. Then there were the Wars. World Wars, to be precise. Daylight Saving Time was a way to save many millions of dollars worth of scarce energy in wartime. Studies show three main benefits that are completely relevant today: 1. Lower energy use. This one is pretty obvious. 2. Fewer traffic accidents (since there is far more traffic in the evenings than in the mornings, and crashes are far more likely in the dark). 3. Lower crime rates. Studies show that in D.C., for example, crime is 10-15% lower due to DST. Other cities showed the same kinds of numbers. In some ways, it seems like we should just adopt Daylight Saving Time year-round, but then we'd have a bit too much darkness in the mornings during the winter.
Serious question: Do vampires spring forward when we fall back and fall back when we spring forward - or is it the same for them as it is for us? I wonder what this does to their sleep hours?
I fly monthly, to and from the east and west coasts - no issues. And it only took me 1 day to adopt to tiime in Europe, this daylight thing is different, it fucks up my bodies clock in regards to sleep/wake time. Last year was a major exception. They moved daylight savings up 3 weeks earlier than normal (same this year), but it was the first time that happened. Here in KC, its now pitch black at 6:15 when I get up, compared to being at least some light, my body gets royally ******* confused. Hardest part is at night though. I normally am out by midnight, and i even went to bed at 11 last night. But, I tossed and turned until 1:30 - which makes the 6:15 make up call that much worse.
I don't need DST to get an hour of daylight after work. If I thought I needed that I'd just get up an hour earlier and ask my boss if I could come in and leave an hour earlier than usual.
To vampires, dark is dark and the only time they come out. They don't spring forward or back, they only "spring toward" a victim that is. Time is meaningless to them.
When Nixon put us on daylight savings time in 1974, it was in January. I was a Soph in college. Going to a 7:30am on regular time class was early enough, but On DST, the sun didn’t rise until 9:00am.
