What was the scientific basis of offsetting the time change... Anyone know?
The basic concept is that daylight savings time pushes more daylight back into hours in which we have more activities, thus reducing the amount of energy needed. However, I would argue that beginning about the end of October or so, we start waking up in the dark and using that energy we would’ve used in the evening in the morning instead, thus offsetting any gains and rendering the whole thing moot.
There’s also a small lobby, backed by candy manufacturers, that argued the change to make Halloween trick-or-treating safer.