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Dear USA Residents of Gaymelive:

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If you will be asleep at 2 a.m. then you would obviously change your clock BEFORE you went to sleep, I kind of figured that would be a given Saulty.

Matty:

"The idea of daylight saving time was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 during his stay in Paris.

Although many believe that Benjamin Franklin invented DST, some say that modern DST was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson, an entomologist from New Zealand.

The invention of DST was mainly credited to William Willett in 1905 when he came up with the idea of moving the clocks forward in the summer to take advantage of the daylight in the mornings and the lighter evenings.

Germany during World War I at 11:00pm (23:00) on April 30, 1916. It was quickly followed by Britain and many countries from both sides, including the United States. Many countries reverted back to standard time post-World War I, and it wasn’t until the next World War that DST would make its return to many countries in order to save vital energy resources for the war. "

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