Weekend research

This is our DST reminder for those who get too busy with Easter (and April Fools’ Day) preparations this weekend. For those who don’t know, DST stands for ...

DST stands for Daylight Saving Time.

This Sunday, at 2:00 a.m. we are setting our clocks forward by an hour, to 3:00 a.m.

  • Whose idea was it?
  • When did they start to experiment with DST?
  • In which country did they start using it?
  • Why is it good?
  • How have general opinion and scientific views changed since its implementation?

If you want to find out more about its history, terminology, and impact on our lives,

Timeanddate dot com has a digestable length article about it:

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/history.html

And Wikipedia has a long, long, long entry about it, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

 

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