Daylight Saving?

Abstract

IN my note on the so-called Daylight Saving proposal. I repeated a suggestion made by many, viz., that a simple solution to the whole question would be to commence work one hour earlier during the summer, and do this without confusing ourselves and others without altering the clocks. Why Mr. Southerns quotes me as saying one hour later I do not know. The main point, however, to which practically no reference is made is that the majority of workers in Great Britain will, if the time-saving scheme comes into force, have to rise at 4 a.m. instead of 5 a.m. for six months in the year. This is increasing darkness and not saving daylight. It is all very well to say that the total population in Great Britain will, if they go to bed one hour earlier, save two and a half million pounds on illumination, but it would only be fair if the promoters of this new-fangled idea would tell the inhabitants of Great Britain how many millions they would, have to spend; Oil extra illumination required in the morning. You cannot make a piece of cloth longer by cutting off one end and sewing it on the other.