[plug] Daylight Rubbish

[Mark]

Jonathan Young wrote:

> Bernd Felsche wrote:
>
>>"Patrick Coleman" <blinken at gmail.com> <mailto:blinken at gmail.com> writes:
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>>>On 12/8/06, Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> <mailto:caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
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>>>>Has anyone else noticed they are now doing an extra 5-6 hours a week
>>>>work now that the DST is in?
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>>>>
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>>>Yes, actually; before you know it it's 6:30. I spose you use the
>>>daylight to tell you when to look at the clock. :)
>>>    
>>>
>>Indeed. One of the reasons why daylight savibng was originally
>>introduced as wa war-time measure.
>>
>>P.S. I'm back from the conference in the big smoke (Melbourne).
>>  
>>
> How would that have helped during war time?


More to do with munitions workers and anyone involved in war material 
production.

>
> Is it as obvious as the troops would have kept at it longer without 
> noticing?
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