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Benjamin Franklin is credited with first suggesting the idea of daylight time in 1784 as a way to save candles. The earliest known reference to the idea comes in his 1784 essay called "Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle."
Some believe Franklin was joking, but more than a century later a British
builder named William Willet made a serious push for the change in a 1907 pamphlet entitled "Waste of Daylight."
Daylight time was adopted by several countries during World War One to save fuel.
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