Day light savings time - why are they saving it and where do they keep it?

Question

Day light savings time - why are they saving it and where do they keep it?

Answer 1

The US government keeps most of it in the repository at Fort Knox and a little bit in area51, where it is used in scientific testing.  The reason they do this is to maintain confidence that the sun will continue to rise.  It used to be that the government required itself to maintain enough daylight to redeem at least a year's worth of light.  This was impractical, though, so now they keep less than a full day.  The only reason the sun still rises at all is because everyone believes it will.  But the good side of having a floating time is that the luminary reserve can arbitrarily add an hour of daylight or take it away for our economic convenience.  A pope once tried to take ten days' worth of light, which created chaos.  I think those ten days are still stored in the vatican somewhere, but nobody outside the pope's advisors really knows for sure.  The government is more careful now--it just gives or takes an hour here or there.

Answer 2

It's an archaic tradition used in the past to help farmers have more daylight. It's not kept anywhere, it just pisses students off like me who can't procrastinate another hour.