March 2011
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Funnier if you are -000UTC
Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin in his whimsical essay “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26). Not everyone is happy with the results.
— Paul Eggert, editor of the public-domain Time Zone Database (TZDB), via Jon Udell