Interesting article about Daylight Saving Time. I had always assumed it originally had to do with farming communities, giving farmers extra daylight hours in which to perform chores. But time and me have a very tenuous, complicated relationship. It's mostly a mystery to me . . .

Apparently it's more to save resources and energy (i.e., if it gets dark earlier, people go to bed earlier, thus turning off lights and televisions, etc., and saving energy; the same is true if it's lighter in the morning, i.e., you don't have to turn on as many lights when you get up).

This completely surprised me:

In 1974, Daylight Saving Time lasted ten months and lasted for eight months in 1975, rather than the normal six months (then, May to October). The U.S. Department of Transportation -- which has jurisdiction over Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. -- studied the results of the experiment.

I don't remember that at all. And I should--those were the years I was in college. I'll have to ask Bob if he remembers that.