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It’s that time of year to say goodbye to afternoon light, with the earliest sunset of the year expected Sunday at 4:49 p.m. and sunrise at 6:55 a.m.
Washington state will “fall back” to standard time on Sunday, when clocks are turned back one hour at 2 a.m., many going to bed Saturday night and getting an extra hour of sleep.
Who had the idea to change the clocks? It depends on who you ask
The creation of Daylight Saving Time (DST) is often credited to Benjamin Franklin, who first wrote about the idea in a letter to the editor of the Journal de Paris in 1784. Franklin merely suggested Parisians should wake up earlier to save money on lamp oil and candles, and more importantly, he wrote it as satire.
If you enjoy DST as we know it today, you can thank New Zealand scientist George Vernon Hudson, who presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society in 1895 that proposed a two-hour shift forward in October and a two-hour shift back in March. Although there was interest in Hudson’s proposal, and he followed up on it with another article in 1898, the idea never came to fruition.
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