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Matters of Time

99% Invisible

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What Is a Waste of Daylight?

Aly willett wrote a pamphlet promoting the idea of pushing back the clocks one hour in the summer. The british parliament actually took up his idea, but did they approve it based on this pamphlet? They did not. So some politicians argued, but this was a completely pointless thing. Yet it seemed intuitive to them, so they rejected it. But wod was not the type to be dissuaded - he came back again with the same proposal and kept being considered. This became a perennial piece of legislation. If willett had lived one more year, he would have seen his idea implemented. In 19 16 there was an energy crisis because a lot of coal miners had joined

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