In a purely whimsical 1784 essay, called "Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is
my Beagle" Benjamin Franklin proposed DST. It was first seriously advocated
by William Willit, a British Builder, in his pamphlet "Waste of Daylight" in
1907.



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History of Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time is a change in the standard time of each time zone.
Time zones were first used by the railroads in 1883 to standardize their
schedules. According to the The Canadian Encyclopedia Plus by McClelland &
Stewart Inc., Canada's "[Sir Sandford] Fleming also played a key role in the
development of a worldwide system of keeping time. Trains had made obsolete
the old system where every major cities and regions set clocks according to
local astronomical conditions. Fleming advocated the adoption of a standard
or mean time and hourly variations from that according to established time
zones. He was instrumental in convening an International Prime Meridian
Conference in Washington in 1884 at which the system of international
standard time -- still in use today -- was adopted."

Above taken from http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html

But according to HOLLYWOOD SQUARES... Benjamin Franklin invented daylight
savings to reduce the number of candles being consumed.

So who's right?  or better yet, does it really matter, I still don't like
it.