Benjamin Franklin proposed the idea of daylight savings time to conserve candles.




dave




edit: OK, so I answered a question that wasn't asked. I read the first post wrong.

i believe you...it just cracks me up how you said it!

OK, I cheated and looked it up. (is lookng it up cheating?)

Hawaii does not observe DST.

And 2am was chosen because most bars are already closed.

And finally, Red-throated bugle hen.


The last one was the answer to another question you didn't ask, but if it comes up....





dave

Correct - on Hawaii because they are so close to the equator that there
days are of equual length.


and NO to the bar rooms closing at 2 am

Doesn't it have something to do with World War I?...

Yes, the whole daylight saving time thing started around WW1.

But why 2 am?

Was it a shift change, or the best time to change a certain "official" clock?

Getting Warm...
there was less activity of something at 2 am ?
and it stopped for an hour to wait for the clock to catch up?

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its the old railroad trains.
that is when the least were running at 2 am. So they would actually stop all trains for an hour to catch up to the clocks.

And now the US Congress in its infinite wisdom will kick back DST another 4-5 weeks 2007, and FYI in CAN, Saskatchewan does not observe DST.