Seize the Daylight : The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time (Paperback)

from IslandDave

Everything I thought I knew about the origins of Daylight Saving Time was wrong. So says Seize the Daylight, an interesting small-scale popular history book. Contrary to what I'd always heard (that daylight saving started as a way to help farmers), the movement to change daylight hours started fi...

from richardderus

Nice little microhistory of the struggle to save the world a little energy and a lot of frustration by making time uniform within time zones. Most countries in the world that aren't equatorial or majority rural/farming use daylight saving time. It makes lots of sense. I hate the day of the change...

from OliviainNJ

Prerau's book is easy to read though not particularly witty; really, a straight history of the concept of swapping an hour of darkness when "most people are asleep anyway" for an hour of light at the end of the day, when more people can take advantage of it. What makes the book curious is that it...

from OliviainNJ

Prerau's book is easy to read though not particularly witty; really, a straight history of the concept of swapping an hour of darkness when "most people are asleep anyway" for an hour of light at the end of the day, when more people can take advantage of it. What makes the book curious is that it...

from kevinashley

I thought I was relatively well-informed about timezones, daylight saving and the changes that have taken place over the years. This book rapidly made it clear to me that I wasn't, but having read it I'm much better informed than I was. Not that I know everything in it, because this book is cramm...