![]() ![]() In 1908, Port Arthur in Ontario, Canada (today merged into Thunder Bay), started using DST. ![]() After some serious consideration, it was not implemented. In 1907, British resident William Willett presented the idea as a way to save energy. In 1895, New Zealand entomologist and astronomer George Hudson proposed the idea of changing clocks by two hours every spring to the Wellington Philosophical Society. In a satirical letter to the editor of The Journal of Paris, Franklin suggested that waking up earlier in the summer would economize on candle usage and calculated considerable savings. The idea of aligning waking hours to daylight hours to conserve candles was first conceptualized in 1784 by American polymath Benjamin Franklin. As a result, there is one 23-hour day in early spring and one 25-hour day in the middle of autumn. The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in either the late winter or spring (" spring forward"), and to set clocks back by one hour in the fall (North American English) (" fall back") or autumn (UK English) to return to standard time.
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