Spring Forward

I've always been late to rise and late to bed so "Daylight Saving Time" or "Summer Time" has often left me a bit miffed since everything in the US seems to revolve around the people who are early to rise and are early to bed. After 9pm it's nearly impossible to find a restaurant or shops that are open unless you live in a city centre. This appears absurd considering we are not an agrarian society that rises with the sun to tend the crops anymore, but makes more sense in the energy conservation rationale.

Timekeeping has been a bit of historical curiosity and contention throughout the ages and there are several books which treat the subject quite well; History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders, Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time, Calendrical Calculations and The Oxford Companion to the Year.