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...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...
...DST is not 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...
...reality: Europe and Russia change to DST on the last Sunday in March; Canada, Mexico and the U.S. change on the first Sunday in April; and Israel doesn't even have a set day. (Its Minister of Interior decides on the date every year...
This is not a personal thing. After all, I won back one of these two lost hours somewhere on my flight over the Atlantic between London and Boston. The main goal of changing to DST, however, is to save energy--shouldn't we all be able to find the optimum date for this change and implement it? If we can't all agree on such simplistic issues as when to change our clocks, how will we ever find a consensus on more difficult international problems where joining our available forces is an absolute necessity...
France's counterintelligence service, the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST), had been tracking the spying since 1992, according to Le Monde. A female CIA officer and her male partner first tried to bribe a member of parliament with 500-franc notes to reveal France's negotiating position on world-trade talks, when Washington was pressing Paris to lower agricultural subsidies and open its television-broadcast market to U.S. programs. Another senior official in the Ministry of Communications was offered cash for intelligence on telecommunications and audiovisual policy. A technician for France-Telecom, the French telephone network, was also recruited...