Benjamin Franklin on Daylight Savings Time
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.
Benjamin Franklin, The life and miscellaneous writings of Benjamin Franklin (1839)
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Noting that the people of Paris spend much money on candles when they could simply adjust their clocks to rise with the sun.
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Daylight Savings Time, Benjamin Franklin, pure light, candles, people, Paris, circumstances, sun, smoky, clocks, Noting, citizens