DAYLIGHT SAVING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14150, 27 August 1909, Page 4

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

The Daylight Saving Bill, which excited such general interest in the United Kingdom and received a large amount of support in the House of Commons, has presumably received its death-blow at the hands of the Select Committee. The report is that such an enactment would create confusion, especially in regard to agriculture and the railways, and there is no possibility in modern times of anything which repeatedly creates industrial confusion being tolerated by the great commercial States. The line at which vessels moving east or west gain or lose a day has been drawn across the least inhabited and most isolated region. Extreme care has been taken to arrange the railway times " of the civilised world so as to cause the least possible confusion. To deliberately and customarily " change time," even twice a year, is evidently regarded by industrial authorities as likely to be most disturbing. This, of course, does not affect the real principle of " daylight saving," although it disposes of the empirical method suggested. There is no reason whatever why voluntary agreements or local regulations should not give all that is wanted, without periodically tampering with the clock in order to make believe that we are not altering our hours.