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Saving The Daylight: Why We Put The Clocks Forward (Paperback)
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Saving The Daylight: Why We Put The Clocks Forward (Paperback)

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Paperback 224 Pages / Published: 02/10/2006
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Synopsis
Benjamin Franklin conceived it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it. Every spring the clocks go forward, and every autumn they go back. Saving the Daylight explores for the first time the contentious, and often entertaining, story of this deceptively simple attempt to regulate the sunlight hours. Throughout its surprisingly controversial history, Daylight Saving Time has been claimed to have influenced a wide variety of areas, including agricultural practices, the reporting of sports scores, street crime, voter turnout and many other, sometimes unexpected aspects of daily life. The book brings together the historical, political and technical aspects of the fascinating story behind the movement for DST, with many light and offbeat anecdotes.

Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781862078789
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 210 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 19 mm

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