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Daylight savings time was originally proposed by Benjamin Franklin in order to make life easier on farmers, whose schedules were based on the sun, and not arbitrary human time-keeping.
We're no longer an agricultural society, so the reason for DST's existence is no longer valid... and yet we keep it anyways.
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Now they claim it's for the benefit of the entertainment industry, or something like that. Make everyone burn up all the daylight hours on work, so the entertainment venues have more night to play with.
How ya doing, buddy?