[OT] Daylight Savings (Was Re: Scripting conference stack

[Ken Ray]

On 11/8/05 2:07 PM, "Jim Hurley" <jhurley at infostations.com> wrote:

>> 
>>> 
>>>  Sarah,
>>> 
>>>  You have Conrad Adenauer to thank for daylight saving time.
>> 
>> Actually, I thought it was Benjamin Franklin...
>> 
>>   http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin.html
>> 
>> or did he just muse about it?
>> 
>> Ken Ray
>> Sons of Thunder Software
>> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>> 
> 
> Ken,
> 
> That line, attributing daylight savings time to Adenauer, works
> better if you HEAR it rather than read it. :)

Now that you mention it, I did hear that it was actually Conrad and his
cousin, Alexander Subtractanauer, were responsible for daylight savings...

;-)

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com