OK, so the Nazi regime was probably government at its worst. But daylight saving time ranks somewhere up there.

That’s right, daylight saving time, not daylight savings time. This link claims to explain why.

But, you know, daylight saving time really is just a bunch of politicians telling you when to get up and when to go to bed. As Roberston Davies so eloquently put it:

I don’t really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen.

As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

Right on.