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Hate daylight savings time? Blame this guy who liked to collect bugs.
People have blamed farmers and Benjamin Franklin for the switch, but modern daylight savings time was first proposed in 1895 by George Hudson, an entomologist in New Zealand who wanted to use the extra daylight to collect insects.
The idea was later promoted in England by William Willett, a builder and golfer, who wrote in 1907 that the extra daylight would offer more time for outdoor activity. Both England and the US started implementing the practice to save energy during World War I.
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