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Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time

Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it, and more recently the United States fought an energy crisis with it. For several months every year, for better or worse, daylight savings time affects vast numbers of people throughout the world. And from Ben Franklin’s era to today, its story has been an intriguing and sometimes-bizarre amalgam

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Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time

Michael Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, the loopy idea that became the most persistent political controversy in American history. Almost one hundred years after Congressmen and lawmakers in every state first debated, ridiculed, and then passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour of daylight, no one can say for sure why we are required by law to change our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme? The most authoritative sources agree it was a Pittsburgh industrial

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Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time is a down to earth look at the challenges small business owners face. It offers common sense, cost effective strategies that small business owners can use to strengthen their Customer base and grow their business while gaining more freedom for themselves.

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Daylight saving time

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Daylight saving time (DST)-also summer time in several countries including in British English and European official terminology (see Terminology)-is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks during the summertime so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Modern DST was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson. Many c

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