B98.5 » daylight savings time http://b985.fm Central Maine's Country Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:31:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 The History Of Daylight Savings Time http://b985.fm/the-history-of-daylight-savings-time-2/ http://b985.fm/the-history-of-daylight-savings-time-2/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:03:41 +0000 Andy Capwell http://b985.fm/?p=29592  

With daylight savings time coming to an end this Sunday morning. It got me wondering how did it start in the first place? It's a popular belief that the first idea of daylight savings time was conceived by Benjamin Franklin in 1784. He published an essay titled 'An Economical Project for Diminshing the Cost of Light' it proposed to economize the use of candles by rising earlier to make use of the morning sunlight.

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