Finally, a great mystery answered... sort of. The semi-annual change of time had always been something of a mystery to me; why, after all, would daylight not be worth saving? Turns out daylight savings time has little to do with farmers, but was an
energy conservation measure taken by many countries during World War I. It fails to answer why they didn't just change the whole year, though...
(via Zeldman)
Posted by dreeves at October 29, 2003 9:11 PM