Useless Info: Daylight Savings And The Draft

'Finally, one clever man used DST to avoid the draft.

During the Vietnam-era draft lottery, the man, who had been born just after midnight DST, argued that Standard Time, not DST, was the official time for recording births.

So he argued that he had actually been born the day before, on a day which carried a much higher draft lottery number. The draft board agreed, and left him alone.'

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