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Indeed. But I'm gonna show those daylight savings bastards they can't have my precious hour. So I'm going to show up an hour late for work Monday and steal it back!
I don't know what the whole things is about. I was told growing up it was for the kids, so they didn't have to go to school in the dark. But then a while ago I read some report that said it was all about money.
Originally it had to do with some golfer dude wanting more leisure time, then the Germans adopted it to save fuel, then everyone else did cause they were scared of Hitler's pants.
I always heard it was so farmers got an "extra hour of sunlight". Well if it's so bloody precious why don't they get up an hour earlier for a few months and leave the rest of us alone? In bed.
Not to mention, this is the new, "improved" George W. Bush version of DST, which starts a month earlier than the old DST. It used to happen in mid-April.
Just one more executive order that Obama can rescind.