Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
George wrote:

It was originally proposed by Benjamin Franklin and put into law in the
US to save energy during WW1.

Wikipedia excerpt:

In 1905, the prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett
was inspired to invent DST ...

I fail to see how he (Williett) can be said to have "invented" it since
Franklin published the idea in the 18th century predating his discovery
by some 120 years...

This article discounts anything other than the satire, but I think there
was more to it than that even though it wasn't widely adopted.

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