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Seize the Daylight The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time

David Prerau

Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it, and more recently the United States fought an energy crisis with it. For several months every year,...

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It was referenced as a source of information regarding the history and background of daylight saving time, particularly the standardization of time zones and the initial implementation of daylight saving time.

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I'd recommend a book called Seize the Daylight. That's where I'm getting some of this from.

— Episode: In Brief: Debating Daylight Saving (with...

Episode: In Brief: Debating Daylight Saving (with Dan Diamo...

It was referenced as a source of information regarding the history and background of daylight saving time, particularly the standardization of time zones and the initial implementation of daylight saving time.

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I'd recommend a book called Seize the Daylight. That's where I'm getting some of this from.

The author of that book Seize the Daylight has essentially made the same argument. This is the guy who's the greatest historian of daylight saving time in the country.

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