In article eV4Xe.127367$084.94268@attbi_s22,
"Jay Honeck" writes:
FWIW- I think DST is just silly. Like making a blanket longer by
cutting a foot off one end and sewing it on the other. Want more
daylight? Change the bloody schedule, and leave the clocks alone.
Saddens me to see my former state of Indiana rolling over after all
these years. And can anyone confirm the previous accounts about who
invented it? I always thought it was Ben Franklin, which seemed
awful strange for an otherwise sensible man.

Ben Franklin was a nut, but that's neither here nor there. He did
write an essay suggested fiddling clocks in the Summer. "Daylight
-saving time" was first put into U.S. law with the Standard Time Act
of 1917, but the daylight-saving part was repealed two years later.

Here's a sympathetic history of Daylight Saving Time:

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html

and here an Indiana-centric view:

http://www2.indystar.com/library/fac.../history/time/

Good luck getting millions of Americans to change their schedules in
lock-step, in hopes of getting more daylight!

That would be like herding cats.

Well, that's what we're doing, but changing schedules in lock-step
doesn't save any daylight: the deception of Daylight Saving Time
causes me, for one, to have to go to work in the dark for most of
the month of October, and again in April. I really wish they would
just set the clocks two or three hours ahead all year round and be
done with it. [Sure they want only one hour to start with...] In
time, schools and business would simply start later and stay open
later, negating the effect.

Indiana's troubles aren't over. Indiana geographically belongs to
the Central Time zone. Some acceded to the recent change in return
for a promise to consider moving all of Indiana (back) to Central
Time, but it looks as if they're likely to be screwed:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniont..._1n17time.html

--
Frederick