Daylight Savings Time

[evilbutterfly]

People, quit pulling origins out of your asses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_savings#Origin

It's only around because people tend to like operating in daylight hours, so the clocks are adjusted so that if we retain the same schedules we will end up being awake for more hours of daylight. Of course, this is an outdated practice and I agree with Guido that it's retarded nowadays. It was a good idea back in the day because it saved money on candles/electricity and stuff, but these we have streetlights that come on as soon as it's dark, regardless of what the clock says, so we don't seem to care about saving money on lighting.