Daylight saving time set your clocks back an hour

Daylight saving time set your clocks back an hour

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I’m setting my clock back now, don’t forget to set back yours… On a related note here’s a neat tidbit from the origins of daylight savings time (Wikipedia) –

During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin anonymously published a letter in 1784 suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by arising earlier to use morning sunlight. Franklin’s satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise, in the spirit of his earlier proverb “Early to bed and early to rise / Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Franklin did not propose shifting clocks; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep accurate schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin’s day.

Daylight saving time – Link.

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