The New York Times says it’s because the candy companies lobbied for it to help candy sales on Halloween.
Like they always say, “follow the money.” Incidentally, I always hated getting money on Halloween. I wanted candy. And if anyone wants to really ruin a kid’s night, give them mini-carrots. It will be met with the same excitement as when Charlie Brown looked in his trick-or-treat bag and announced with dismay, “I got a rock.”
You were given mini-carrots as a child? I had a dentist neighbor who would give out toothbrushes every year. It always made me feel guilty; the last thing you want on Halloween is to be reminded by your dentist that all that candy is going to give you cavities.
I handed out 2 saltines in a sandwich bag.
I hate time changes! I want the time to be left alone; pick one and stick to it. If I had my druthers I would pick to be in the Eastern time zone on DLS year around. That way we would have the most late daylight possible and be in tune with the largest portion of the population. Maybe we need to dump a time zone; I recommend Moutain. Give half of it to the Pacific and the other half to Central and make all area east of the Mississippi on Eastern. What do you think?
Personally, I would like to see year-round daylight savings time, but the twice-yearly wailing and hand-wringing about time changes is way overblown. It just isn’t that big of a deal. If the world didn’t collapse at Y2K, it won’t be much affected by changing from DS to Standard time and back.
When I was living in Arizona for a while, we did not have to worry about DST at all, it was nice.
I can understand why it was done when we were burning whale oil lamps and parifin candles, but a little something called the incandescent light bulb has been invented and they are in wide use.
Can we just please pick a time and stick to it?