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Archive for March 2023

Did Benjamin Franklin Invent Daylight Saving Time?

By Christopher Klein | March 12, 2023 | 0

Did Benjamin Franklin come up with the idea of Daylight Saving Time? No. While Franklin was an envoy in Paris in 1784, he was unpleasantly awakened one morning at 6 AM by the summer sun. He then penned a satirical essay in which he calculated that Parisians, simply by waking up at dawn, could save…

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