I gotsa good question. Why was DST started in the 1st place? I’ve seen a coupla answers, so which one is correct?
One is because Ben Franklin thought it would save on candle wax, another is because during some war it was to help conserve energy.
Which one, if any, is correct? 
Morkster
Sarcasm alert… To be exact, I think laphroaig was being sarcastic. We in fact do divide the day into two periods, one starting at midday and one starting at midnight, and I personally have a device for getting me up early - it’s called that &%(^# alarm clock. 
You may notice, with close observation, that in both cases the attempt is to reduce the consumption of resources. The discrepancy in the dates and stated purposes is due to the fact that no one actually acted on Ben’s suggestion. The first implementation of “savings” time occurred around 120 years after his death.
Ben gets the credit for proposing the idea in public. The government administrations in power during WWI get the credit/blame for acting on the idea.
Tom~
Kind of ironic that tomndebb’s post is time-stamped about two hours in the future. That’s some time savings.
It is too clear, and so it is hard to see.
There is one commodity that farmers never had in abundance and that is, and always will be TIME! Of course farmers had heard of a refrigerator. They heard about them in the newspapers, magazines and in their trade journals. If they somehow didn’t find the TIME to peruse the printed page, well there was always TIME for the county fair, where every sales rep in the region would be displaying their wares, including those selling refigerators! The american farmer was eagerly looking forward to this new technology and was indeed taking the TIME to make preparations for its arrival, such as saving up for it, such as spending the TIME to prepare a place to put it, such as spending the TIME to become educated about the whole process. Fact is the farmer welcomed refrigeration as a TIME saving device. Forget the sun, (forget the moon for that matter) it wasn’t the hour the train would arrive, so much as the DAY the train would arrive! Think about it, you spend the TIME to milk your cows, you spend the TIME to clean up afterwards, then you spend the TIME to feed those beautiful animals, then you, as a farmer, still has to find the TIME to get the milk cans out to the tracks. And when you get out to the tracks, what do you find? 2 feet of snow on the tracks! And you know the trains not coming on TIME today. So the farmer has to find the TIME to save his crop. He has to take the TIME to insulate it to keep it from freezing. That would be to take the TIME to grab the straw and bust up a bale or two or 20. No big deal…he’s done it a hundred times before (of course tearing apart a bale of straw in winter when it’s frozen into a brick takes a considerable amount of TIME (not to mention effort) the farmer was indeed looking forward, looking forward to the day he gets refigeration on his farm so that he no longer has to spend (waste?) TIME on this. Then came the war. We’re talking WWII here and the farmer couldn’t get a refrigerator. And we’re talking daylight savings time here, because that’s when it all started. Daylight savings time was first initiated for the war effort. Why we still have to take the TIME to be inconvenienced in this day and age, well i don’t know. Maybe we could ask the cows.
So, saving TIME is a bad idea because refrigerators won’t work in the winter?
“The dawn of a new era is felt and not measured.” Walter Lord
By the way, the term is Daylight SAVING time, not savings.