On my walk with Jean today, we got to carping about Daylight Saving Time, or as I quipped, Daylight Shifting Time. So why do we have to hunt down all our clocks and shuffle them back and forth twice a year?
- UselessKnowledge.com's take.
- Cecil Adams' take.
- A Catchall Site from the University of Indiana.
- A map of countries which follow DST. Looks like Japan is sensible "qbullet.smiley".
- Finally...
www.standardtime.com
Further, a study of traffic accidents throughout Canada in 1991 and 1992 by Stanley Coren of the University of British Columbia before, during, and immediately after the so-called "spring forward" when DST begins in April. Alarmingly, he found an eight percent jump in traffic accidents on the Monday after clocks are moved ahead.
And I find it all too annoying. So there!
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