The Great Daylight Saving Time Controversy
My latest ebook, The Great Daylight Saving Time Controversy, has just been published by Australian eBook Publisher. It’s available at the various Amazon sites, Kobo, Apple and Google. See links below (Amazon links come up as images; the first one is the Australian site and the second one is the US site).
The book examines the origins of daylight saving, including the historical development of calendars, clocks, standard time, and the idea of changing the clock to give more daylight late in the day. It looks at the history of daylight saving in every country that has ever used the measure. It also analyses daylight saving in each state of the US, Australia and Brazil, and each Canadian province.
It features many intriguing and often prolonged battles between advocates and critics of daylight saving in countries around the world, as well as lighter moments. It highlights the determination of daylight saving time champions such as the UK’s William Willett, the US’s Robert Garland and Harley Staggers, New Zealand’s Thomas Sidey and Tasmania’s John Steer. It delves into the chaotic daylight saving situations that emerged, notably in the US and Canada, but also elsewhere. Every country and sometimes each state has a different and usually controversial story to tell.
See the contents page of the ebook below. Length is about 400 pages in Word/pdf format.
[image error]
Contents:
Preface
Part I: Origins of daylight saving time
1 Calendar chaos
2 Counting the hours
3 Benjamin Franklin’s humour
4 Railways impose their time
5 William Willett’s dream
Part II: Daylight saving in UK and Europe
6 Wartime imperatives
7 United Kingdom sticks with daylight saving
8 UK’s single double summer time saga
9 Western Europe well ahead of the sun
10 Mixed feelings in rest of Europe
Part III: Daylight saving in North America
11 United States adopts measure late
12 Daylight saving mayhem
13 What’s the time? You choose
14 National daylight saving again
15 Canadian clock chaos
16 Saving daylight in deserts and on tropical islands
Part IV: Daylight saving in Australia and NZ
17 Apple Isle leads the way
18 Southern states in and out of sync
19 Contentious in the Sunshine State
20 Daylight saving sets in the west
21 The long road to daylight saving across the ditch
Part V: Daylight saving in the rest of the world
22 Asian countries opting out
23 No longer popular in South America
24 Never favoured in Africa
25 Antarctica: Daylight saving without daylight
Future of daylight saving time
Notes
Appendix: Daylight saving by country and state by year
Links:
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-great-daylight-saving-time-controversy/id1224081657?mt=11
https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/the-great-daylight-saving-time-controversy
Publisher:
http://www.australianebookpublisher.com.au/
