PRINCIPLE 34: IF IT EXISTS, IT IS A CONTRACTUAL THEORY.
PRINCIPLE 34A: IF THERE EXISTS AND REQUIRES AN IRRITATING ACTIVITY TWO TIMES A YEAR THAT DOES NOT HAVE ANY VISIBLE BENEFIT, EVEN RATIONAL PEOPLE WILL CONSIDER THIS VERSION.
THE TIMEKEEPERS
The resistance against the clock shift is growing in strength in the world. Its staunch and most consistent spokesman in recent years has been Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time. The entire book serves to show that in some respects, once rational design has become an irritating caricature of rationality today, requiring thousands of extremely complex and costly legal regulations and logistical solutions.
Have you ever wondered what happens to trains when the time suddenly appears in the timetable? Or disappears? What about data on servers that suddenly have their save date delayed by an hour? What about the dating of legal acts when the chronology is suddenly disturbed?
WHO INVENTED THE TIME CHANGE?
While searching the internet, you can come across information that this is an idea straight from ancient Rome or China. Most sources, rightly so, attribute this concept to Benjamin Franklin. In 1784 he wrote a letter-proposal to one of the newspapers entitled An Economical Project, in which - in addition to changing the time - applied, inter alia, for ... imposing a fine for anyone who will keep the shutters closed after sunrise. In this way, he argued, people would be forced to get up in the morning, and the economy would develop on the basis of sunlight, not candlelight.
The problem is that Franklin's text was a joke. Satire. A thought experiment that proves one of his most important maxims. Time is money. There is no indication, opponents of the clock shift argue today, that the perfectly rational Franklin would find it a good idea to tinker with all clocks twice a year.
And even if an idea was rational in the agricultural or early industrial era, in the era of candles or kerosene lamps, it does not necessarily make sense in the age of memes and pokemons. So why are we changing time?
Michael Downing points to a strong lobby in sectors you would never expect… A shift in time means extra profits for the recreational industry that is led by… golf clubs!
But of course you don't have to believe Downing ...
Theories
Moving the date of the change of time in the US so that Halloween is still one hour longer is a conspiracy of candy makers. (Such a change actually took place recently.) 1
Changing the time is a right-wing conspiracy that harms ordinary citizens but supports the interests of big business2.
Behind the change of time there are banks that keep our money an hour longer, without charging interest for it3.
The reptilians are behind the time change. Nobody said it aloud, but rule 35 says: if there is a conspiracy theory on a topic, there will also be a lizard-man version of it.
RADICAL TIME CHANGE
But that's still nothing!
Do you think time change is time change? You are so wrong. A real change of time was carried out on the occasion of the French Revolution. It was then found that the old way of measuring time was full of references to ancient religious beliefs and the political order. The hour measuring system has for years been associated with the church (bell towers, hours) and the state (clocks on town hall towers). The calendar consists of seven-day weeks with sanctified Sundays, and in addition is full of memories of saints ...
So it was decided to go on an extraordinary social experiment, which is rarely mentioned today. A radical change of time.
The old count of the days was replaced by new ten-day weeks (the following days were simply called the first, the second, etc.). Twelve 30-day months (and a special holiday period for additional days) were introduced. Each day, instead of a patron, got its name from an item related to a given season (the day of grapes, crocus, etc.).
The most radical change, however, was the measurement of time. Consistently subjecting all elements of the world to order and rationality, 12 hours were abandoned in favor of the decimal clock (2x 10 hours a day).
Today, only lessons from French history (18 Brumaire by Ludwik Bonaparte!) Remind us of this old radical change and clocks from the epoch, invaluable to collectors, many of which - meeting the imperfections of human cognition - presented both systems, the old and the new, at the same time. a visible sign of a radical change in time.
The new system did not catch on. But he showed us something very important about the old one. Something we don't usually realize. Our way of measuring time - the most prosaic thing possible - is full of more or less hidden cultural messages.
http://rare.us/story/6-signs-that-daylight-savings-time-is-a-right-wing-conspiracy/
https://tuckamoredew.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/the-daylight-savings-conspiracy/
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