After that, sense was lost with the implementation of "daylight savings time" and its ilk. It makes no sense to me and quite frankly is an annoyance without purpose.
As I understand it, the notion was to somehow adjust the time to the schedule of farmers during wartime.
Farmers are intelligent independent folk. They didn't need anyone to change the clocks around for them to schedule their work when every town was on solar time throughout the year before railway time and time zones were implemented. Quite frankly, they adapted to everyone else in commerce using time-zones, and did it quite easily.
I have read innumerable explanations about how this practice saves energy or streamlines some war effort, or saves energy in the 1970s, but my feeble engineer's and soldier's mind does not grasp how it actually works in that regard. Hence, it arrives at that conclusion this is just feel-good ("We're doing something for the war effort") twaddle that ticks all the boxes of archaic, nonsensical, useless, and demeaning to thinking people everywhere.
It does serve one purpose, a bellweather to illustrate how totally dysfunctional the American government system is. A simple thing to ban, a popular thing to ban, no downside, no party divide, everyone despises it. Yet something even this schoolboy-easy they cannot accomplish. What a waste of oxygen are the collective lungs of Congress, and we're still going through the motions of this absolutely useless (then and now) exercise.
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