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Daylight Saving Time 101

From mynorthwest.com

You're going to hear it all day. "Don't forget to set your clocks back." Daylight Saving Time ends early Sunday morning, which means we all get an extra hour of sleep Saturday night. But how did this annual messing with the clocks get started and why? There are a lot of myths about its origins. Benjamin Franklin is often credited with first proposing the idea of moving our clocks to give us more sunlight in the evening during the summer months. It was an off-handed and somewhat satirical comment in an essay he wrote in Paris in 1784. The idea didn't really go anywhere for about 100 years until an ... (full story)

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