kelley wrote:
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> Of course, daylight savings time is a social construct. Jimmy Carter
> fucked with it didn't he?
>
Swift beat you to it -- see Gulliver's watch. Also critics (used to anyhow) debate on whether the obscure household item at the center of HJ's *The Ambassadors* was a clock or a toilet.
But I think it was RN, not Carter. He made DST last the year around to save on electricity. All sorts of people went ballistic about the terrible danger to school children of walking to school in the dark.
Carrol