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The prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett, who allegedly independently conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day. An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk. His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later.
Willett lobbied unsuccessfully for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915, and Germany, its World War I allies, and their occupied zones were the first European nations to use Willett's invention, starting April 30, 1916, as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year; and the United States adopted it in 1918.However Benjamin Franklin when living in Paris also suggested putting the clocks back to utilise the summer daylight hours and preserve the use of candles. Since then, the Uk has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.
George Hudson a New Zealand entomologist also submitted a paper in 1895 to introduce daylight savings time in order that he could finish work and still use the daylight to study insects.Odd but true.