It’s full of caveats, though. DST wasn’t started by golf courses, of course. And they’re not the only businesses that benefit from having more daylight hours after work, when people can go and pay for whatever activity they want to do that needs daylight. But whenever this comes up, golf course lobbies are prominent - they are either sponsoring bills to eliminate standard time, or opposing bills that eliminate DST. They want to preserve DST no matter what; knowing that many Americans would support eliminating the switch, they want it to be DST we end up with.
But, no, they aren’t the moustache-twirling masterminds behind DST. They’re just a prominent leader of industries that benefit from dark mornings at light evenings (vs the alternative).
I’m dead serious.
It’s full of caveats, though. DST wasn’t started by golf courses, of course. And they’re not the only businesses that benefit from having more daylight hours after work, when people can go and pay for whatever activity they want to do that needs daylight. But whenever this comes up, golf course lobbies are prominent - they are either sponsoring bills to eliminate standard time, or opposing bills that eliminate DST. They want to preserve DST no matter what; knowing that many Americans would support eliminating the switch, they want it to be DST we end up with.
But, no, they aren’t the moustache-twirling masterminds behind DST. They’re just a prominent leader of industries that benefit from dark mornings at light evenings (vs the alternative).