Thanks Jan!
Daylight Savings Time is pure evil! And of course, this week it's even darker in the morning because of cloudy weather and rain. There should be a law against beginning DST unless the weather forecast is BRIGHT AND SUNNY! It's even harder getting adjusted this year because I look outside, see it's still darkish, and think I have another hour or so before I have to get up. Even when the alarm just went off! Apparently, my brain things my eyes are more reliable than my ears.
Unfortunately, there are some rather powerful lobbyests who support Daylight Sayings Time. Like ... the Association for Convenience and Fuel Retailing who are actually pushing for it to start earlier in the year!!! Apparently, people tend to get out and drive (hence using more gas) when it stays light later. Chamber of Commerce is another lobbying for earlier Daylight Savings Time. Because ... retailers sell more gardening, home repair and sports equipment with extended evening daylight hours. Then we have the golf industry lobbyists. All of whom found that starting DST a month earlier as of 1986 has resulted in millions (billions in terms of gas sales) for those industries.
Farmers on the other hand are opposed to DST (it's even more disruptive to farmers than the rest of us). Of course, we were taught in school DST was instituted to benefit farmers. But, that's not true. It was actually proposed to save candle wax in the evening hours and instituted first during WW1 by Germany seeking cost savings ... then Britain three weeks later, and finally in 1918 by the US. We WOULD have to leap on that bandwagon
Yet one more thing we can blame on the war to end all wars!