I HATE Daylight Saving Time

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My father used to call it Daylight Starving Time because my mother would not fix dinner until it started getting dark enough that he couldn't see to do yard work. He would come home from the base at 5 pm, and she expected two hours of further work from him.

I don't understand why it now runs from March to October or November. I feel sorry for the children who stand out in the dark waiting for school buses.

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I knew that DST began during WWI as a fuel energy saving move, but I did not know that it began in Germany and Austria and spread to other European countries before hitting the U.S. in 1918. Here's a link to the history:

http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html