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Daylight Saving Time

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The History of DST

David Preira is the author of Seize the Daylight, a book about daylight saving time. He says DST has a fascinating backstory that goes back to Benjamin Franklin in 1784. But he's not really the guy responsible for DST, or at least what we call it today. William Willett had a similar idea more than a century after Franklin and lived outside of London.

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