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Reminds me of the story from Australia about the former Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen's arguments that the curtains will fade due to the extra hour of sunlight:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/academic-battles-for-qld-day...

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Deep down, he did realize that changing the clocks doesn’t change the amount of daylight..right?

You never new with Joh - he also backed a "hydrogen car" with doubtful claims [1 - pdf], the government ended with a number of criminal charges for ministers and Joh himself.

[1] https://www.skeptics.com.au/wp-content/uploads/magazine/The%...

But it would change the times people have their curtains closed.

(Not that I think it's a particularly good argument. And no, I'm not in the pocket of Big Curtain)

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