Daylight saving time
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A newspaper columnist observed on Sunday
Quote:Do you ever wonder why you have to spend half of this morning resetting every electronic device in your home? And why tomorrow you’ll struggle to get to work on time, bleary from dragging yourself out of bed an hour early?I expect not. If you did, you’d find that the whole thing was invented by a beetle-hunter called George Hudson, who was annoyed that shift-work kept him from pursuing his hobby in the evenings; oh and it was also championed by a property developer called William Willett who was annoyed by the way dusk fell while he was playing golf. The House of Commons repeatedly rejected it as a silly idea. Eventually, in a moment of madness, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany adopted it, and the rest is history.
There’s no such thing as ‘Daylight Saving’. The amount of light stays the same whatever happens. The whole thing is completely pointless, yet we just keep doing it.
Wikipedia has some more info on it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
and a map of the world where it has been adopted.
Yes, daft isn't it? Here in Turkey it was delayed 24 hours so as not to disrupt local elections across the country on Sunday. However, it didn't stop multiple power cuts at strategic polling stations at vote counting time. Don't know what news you're getting but neither Istanbul nor Ankara have conceded to the AKP and thousands of activists are out trying to protect the boxes. There is a race on to contest the declared figures before the 48 hours is up, any minute now.Of course as far as socialism is concerned this will have no bearing whatsoever – it is being seen broadly as a fight against mega corruption and the coming further tightening of the authoritarian state.
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