Word: daylight
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...only to be interviewed by the keg master about why he was in Massachusetts if he hailed from California. Well, Josh said, he attends school in Massachusetts. Which one? The keg master was curious. A seasoned senior, I interrupted to ask what fine institution the keg master attended during daylight hours, and when he replied Umass-Amherst, I playfully punched Josh’s arm and told Mister Keg that Josh and I attend UMass-Boston. He bought it, and Josh got his beer sans spittle. You laugh, but two friends later told me that they ditched their beer, finding...
...merits of getting up earlier? That way, he might have already achieved something in his own century and wouldn't have had to wait until World War I for personal glory. Only during the war effort did the U.S. and many European countries finally decide to adopt Franklin's Daylight Saving Time (DST) system to save energy and resources to aid the war effort...
...just another military invention that spills over into our daily lives. It was first seriously proposed before WWI as a means to prevent wasting an hour of daylight. An hour more sunlight at night produces real savings for everyone. More natural light means less electricity and decreased heating costs. The lost hour of sunlight in the morning hardly plays a role during the summer, especially because the sun rises early in the northern temperate zones. In the winter months, the savings in the afternoon are offset by the increased need for artificial morning light. This reasoning provides a clear advantage...
...only question that arises is why I lost two precious hours of time this spring. If it's really just economics that influences the change from Standard to Daylight Saving time, shouldn't there be one day every spring when it is optimal to deprive everybody of one hour of sleep? For any given latitude, the date should be the same...
What my campaign needed, I decided, was an enemy, someone to rally against. At first I heard that daylight saving was started by the barbecue lobby, trying to claim an extra hour of grilling time. But most people said it was the farmers. Being Jewish, I don't know any farmers, so I called Susan Peery, managing editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac. She told me that farmers actually protested daylight saving because it messed with nature and interrupted their milking schedule. So now I like farmers. I'm trying to do some coalition building here...