[cotton1706]

Nonsense. Not everything is political. Daylight savings tike stems from Benjamin Franklin, an economical man in every sense, who observed those who worked by candlelight and slept by sunshine and at the same time complained about the cost of candle wax and tallow.

Working by natural light costs nothing.

[EEGator]

“Working by natural light costs nothing.”

Except your free time in the daylight.
I wasn’t born to work my life away.

[miniTAX]

“Not everything is political. Daylight savings tike stems from Benjamin Franklin, an economical man in every sense, who observed those who worked by candlelight and slept by sunshine and at the same time complained about the cost of candle wax and tallow.”

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Except the “Benjamin Franklin” thing is just a idiotic myth. That you can believe such nonsense tells more about your gullibility than any purported merit of Daylight Saving Time.
On the other side, there is a serious argument to show that DST is an unmitigated crap of mammoth proportions: the Europeans will stop using it next year (2019) after a massive public consultation revealed that nearly 90% of respondents are against DST. Good riddance.