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Category: Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time was first seriously proposed in London in 1907 by William Willett in the pamphlet, “Waste of Daylight”. At that time he suggested a 20 minute leap.
And then in WW I and again in WW II it was implemented to conserve energy. Germany was the first nation to adopt daylight time in WW I. With Britain parts of Europe, Canada and the United States quickly followed suit. In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which requested all states to observe Daylight Saving Time, unless a state exempted By observing Daylight Saving Time we, in effect, create an extra hour of daylight in the evening. An hour in which less lighting is used and thus less electricity.
Benjamin Franklin, at that time was an American Delegate in Paris, outlined several amusing regulations that Paris might adopt to help. He parodied himself, his love of thrift, his scientific papers and his passion for playing chess until the wee hours of the morning then sleeping until the we hours of the morning then sleeping until midday.
On April 26, 1784, a letter was published in the Journal de Paris entitled “An Economical Project.” The subject of the letter concerned a discussion involving Benjamin Franklin, noting that much discussion had followed the demonstration of an oil lamp the previous evening concerning the amount of oil used in relation to the quantity of light produced.
