2 November 2013
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Alexander Abad-Santos has an excellent piece here. I have railed against daylight time myself for years, and it is nice to see I am no longer in the wilderness!
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Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
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Without lobbying we probably wouldn’t have DST. For instance, the start/end date change in 2007 was due to lobbying by the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association and the National Association of Convenience Stores. Dang!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_time_in_the_United_States#DST_2007