Daylight Saving Time Quotes

What's good about March? Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart.

Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the King will ride, Call countryants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely.

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.

I was one of the earliest supporters of Daylight Saving. I gave it my voice and my vote in Parliament at a time when powerful interests and bitter and tenacious prejudices were leagued against it, and while the mass of the population was either indifferent or scornful…. These advantages seem so clear and obvious today, that it is difficult to realize and recapture the mood in which the idea of summer time was received when, early in the 20th century …

In our country, there must be two time zones to save working hours. Why we don't have it, I have been talking about this issue for a long time.