[plug] Daylight Rubbish

[Denis Brown]

At or before 01:48 PM 11/12/2006, Mark and many others wrote:
>Jonathan Young wrote:

<snip - basically "why daylight saving?">

The site http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html seems to have a 
definitive bent on this.   It seems Benjamin Franklin (who also messed 
about with kites and lightning, didn't he?) got the idea in 
1784.   Curtains hath been fading 'ere since.

:-)
Denis