Don't you be dissing our presidents. They did good things just like the lobbyists for congress asked them to do. It adds billions of dollars for the golf industry, for instance. It what makes America great again.
They kept pushing up the length of DST because it was a popular thing. I still agree with those who say, why not just adjust the start times of jobs if that is what people want. When I was working I was on "flex time" anyway. We staggered our start times so we had more of the day covered and allowed the early birds to get in and out early. The guys who wanted to sleep in covered the late afternoons. Of course there did have to be some management of the process but it really happened pretty seamlessly. It is amazing how well that can work out of you just let the people decide.
Guess this is as good a history as any:
Thought it was WWII but actually started in WWI to save energy.
Heard a talking head on Fox say it takes about 2 weeks for the human body to react to the sudden time switch.
I bought one of those "DST adjusting" (not NOT auto setting even though the ads claimed it was) in 2005. There were two switches on the bottom. One was for different time zones. The other switched between "old DST rules" and "new DST rules". there was NO setting for "no DST".
After the little (IIRC CR2032) cell died. It never set itself or even kept time.
These "DST adjusting" clocks (I'm NOT referring to these that actually set themselves) usually need a little setting (after DST change) because of accumulated errors during the half year (for example, most clocks with backup batteries run fast during a power outage).
We be on ObamaTime. ;-)
Today I was reading about huge kickbacks that pharmacy benefit programs demand - and get - from pharma companies to put their drugs on the benefit administrator's formulary. It's a criminal act costing citizens millions (and maybe billions) in kickbacks to various players. Take your choice of articles:
He cut funding for something
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