The Regimental Quartermaster provides this
piece of early American history:
The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by
Benjamin Franklin during his sojourn as an American delegate in
Paris in 1784. In an essay,
An Economical Project, he proposed that France look into some type of
Daylight Savings Time in order to save on the cost of lamp oil.
Some of
Franklin's friends, inventors of a new kind of oil lamp, were so taken by the scheme that they continued corresponding with
Franklin even after he returned to America.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) ended at exactly 2:00 am on 1 November 2015.
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