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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › William_WillettWilliam Willett - Wikipedia

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   He suggested that the clocks should be advanced by 20 minutes at a time at 2 am on successive Sundays in April and be reversed in September. William Willett is remembered in Petts Wood by a memorial sundial , which is always set on DST ( Daylight Saving Time )

2. chislehurst-society.org.uk › pages › aboutWilliam Willett: Daylight Saving and British Summer Time

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   While many people had idly suggested over the years that people should change their routines, it was a Chislehurst builder, William Willett (right in 1909), who first proposed a national response.

3. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › articlesNine quick facts about the history of timekeeping - BBC

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   But when were clocks invented, and how have people told time without them? On Radio 4’s You’re Dead To Me history podcast, host Greg Jenner is joined by author and historian Dr David Rooney...

4. time.com › 4549397Daylight Saving Origins: Who Invented Daylight Saving ... - TIME

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   Nov 4, 2016 · The first Daylight Saving Time policy began in Germany on May 1, 1916, in the hopes that it would save energy during World War I, according to Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The...

5. www.webexhibits.org › daylightsaving › refWilliam Willett

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   Willett conceived the idea of putting on the clock eighty minutes. If he had stipulated only an hour, it was probable that his scheme of daylight saving would have been adopted years before the measure passed the Houses of Parliament.

6. www.rmg.co.uk › 100-years-daylight-saving100 years of Daylight Saving | Royal Museums Greenwich

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   May 20, 2016 · Today marks the 100th anniversary of Daylight Saving in Britain, for on Sunday, March 21, 1916 the nation’s clocks were advanced by one hour for the first time. In Britain the idea began with William Willett, a builder from Chislehurst, who was an early riser and keen equestrian.

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   Who invented daylight saving time?

   • He lived most of his life in Chislehurst, Kent, where, it is said, after riding his horse in Petts Wood near his home early one summer morning and noticing how many blinds were still down, the idea for daylight saving time first occurred to him. This was not the first time that the idea of adapting to daylight hours had been mooted, however.

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   When was The Waste of Daylight written?

   • William Willett felt so strongly about the issue that he wrote a pamphlet, The Waste of Daylight, in 1907. In it, he proposed that clocks be advanced by twenty minutes at 2am on four consecutive Sundays in April, and reversed on the four Sundays in September.

   William Willett: Daylight Saving and British Summer Time

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   Where did the idea for daylight saving come from?

   • But, though Germans were first to mess with their clocks, they likely got the idea from Britain—and from someone whose ideas about Daylight Saving had little to do with conserving fuel. William Willett had in 1907 published The Waste of Daylight.

   The Real Reason Why Daylight Saving Time Is a Thing

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   When did daylight saving start in Britain?

   • Today marks the 100th anniversary of Daylight Saving in Britain, for on Sunday, March 21, 1916 the nation’s clocks were advanced by one hour for the first time. In Britain the idea began with William Willett, a builder from Chislehurst, who was an early riser and keen equestrian.

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   Why did William Willett write the waste of daylight?

   • William Willett had in 1907 published The Waste of Daylight. Willett was inspired by an early-morning epiphany that “the sun shines upon the land for several hours each day while we are asleep” and yet there “remains only a brief spell of declining daylight in which to spend the short period of leisure at our disposal.”

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   Why did Willett put on the clock?

   • Willett’s campaign for putting on the clock by eighty minutes cost him a good deal of money for he footed the bill. About twelve months after he began to advocate daylight saving, he attracted the attention of the authorities and Mr. Pearce later Sir Robert Pearce introduced a Bill in the House of Commons to make it compulsory to put on the clock.

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8. www.livescience.com › 11069-started-daylightWho Started Daylight Saving Time? - Live Science

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   Nov 5, 2010 · The idea of resetting clocks forward an hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall was first suggested by Benjamin Franklin in his essay "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of...