Daylight saving time is one of the dumbest things we do. Who cares what time it gets dark

[AlbertCat]

86. Nope

"Although not punctual in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does"

and...

"During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, publisher of the old English proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise",[24][25] anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.[26] This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.[27] Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day."



Your turn....

(Actually.... this is utterly fascinating. The more I learn about history the more it's not like a lot of folks think: Just like today except they wore wigs and hoop skirts and didn't have AC. Their very concept of time and how to keep it was different! The tiny intricacies of daily...minute to minute life get lost to time. What common things we take for granted today will future generations not understand?)