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Just saw your post on the Corner; dittos!
In the astronomy community (amateur only) we refer to it as Daylight Stupid Time. Throws the DST world out of synch by 1 hour, we have to correct for it all the time, as events are noted in UT (universal time, Grenwich Mean time) which has shifted by an hour now. It’s hard enough subtracting 5 hours for GMT to EST, now we have to remember to use 4 hours for now, and they are keeping that hour even longer. When they do it with our money, it’s called kiting. With our withholding of taxes from our paychecks, they don’t pay interest on any overwithheld money, and people are actually grateful when they get their money back! So, do they owe us interest on the time they took from us? We should get at least 3-4 hours of wages tax free for the disupted sleep schedules as well as the excess stomach acid I will suffer trying to get my kids up an extra hour earlier for school!
For me, the best sat/sun of the year is that night in late October when we get it back (unless I’m on call, then have to work an extra hour). Of course, being on call this weekend would have been nice since I’d have one less hour to worry about.
A very lousy idea, credited to Ben Franklin. Doesn’t do him credit.