If you're currently on your second cup of coffee thanks to daylight saving time, here's our piece from November about how legislation could finally bring dark winter months in New York to an end, giving us a consistent clock year-round.
64 million pounds of wax, equivalent to $200 million today, could be saved in a six month period if people started their days at sunrise. But the most important thing to know about this is that. Franklin was JOKING, and hundreds of years later, we all took that joke seriously.
The major reason why countries in Europe finally started to adopt the DST system was to conserve coal during WWI. It briefly got adopted in the U.S. in 1918, though a major reason why President Woodrow Wilson was so in favor of it was, because he was a golf enthusiast, he could get more hours on the green. Congress immediately abolished it after the war, but New York City decided to. The suburbs outside of NYC did not, which understandably caused some serious confusion.
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