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To: afraidfortherepublic

I like daylight savings time. Up here around the 45th parallel, the sun us rising earlier and earlier after March 1st, and it is better to sleep in until at least 6 or 7 o’clock with DST.

And in the fall, we can still have some daylight up north until about 7 pm in October. Otherwise it would be dark at 6 pm on Halloween.


16 posted on 03/21/2015 3:40:29 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: Gumdrop

Benjamin Franklin got the idea for daylight saving time when he was living in Paris, which is almost 49 degrees North (further north than 2/3rds of the population of Canada). He didn’t like the fact that it got light so early in the summer when he wanted to sleep in.


22 posted on 03/21/2015 3:46:56 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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