On 31/08/2021 22:32, Chris Angelico wrote: > If we could abolish DST world-wide, life would be far easier. All the > rest of it would be easy enough to handle. We tried that in the UK for 2 years back in the '70s and very quickly reverted to DST when they realized that the number of fatalities among young children going to school doubled during those two years.
Without DST the schools opened in the dark so all the kids had to travel to school in the dark and the number of traffic accidents while crossing roads jumped. In fact during WW2 they increased DST to 2 hours (that was for the farmers!) because it meant that farm labourers would start work at first light, effectively extending the working day. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
