Did Konrad Adenauer- former German chancellor- really invent daylight savings time?

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Did Konrad Adenauer- former German chancellor- really invent daylight savings time?

2006-12-20 08:20:56 · 2 answers · asked by hope 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History

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No. Daylight Savings Time was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, though he was being satirical when he did it.

The first time it was seriously proposed was by a man named William Willett in "The Waste of Daylight," published in 1907.

It was, however, first put into practice by the German government during WWI in 1916.

2006-12-20 08:28:11 · answer #1 · answered by Digital Haruspex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋

No.

2006-12-20 08:31:23 · answer #2 · answered by Megan Leggett 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋