Huh? Japan rejected US-occupation-mandated Daylight Saving Time because salarymen could not start their drinking on company money until after it is dark.
[INDENT]Keeping time
...in search of the hour we lost this morning...
Sunday Herald. March 26, 2006
....Daylight Saving Time is one good example of what Rooney [Curator of Timekeeping at the Royal Observatory Greenwich] is talking about, applied haphazardly across most industrial nations (but not Japan, where the Ministry of Education are concerned that lighter evenings would distract children from homework)....more..[/INDENT]
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by Kuang_Grade » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:05 pm
Taro Toporific wrote:Huh? Japan rejected US-occupation-mandated Daylight Saving Time because salarymen could not start their drinking on company money until after it is dark.
On a similar note, I can't remember which book suggested it (possibly embracing defeat by dower), but it had the tone that early post war Japan was so wretched, J folks were against anything that seemed to extend the day.
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