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The truth about Day Light Saving Time; William Willett loved to golf and didn’t like his round being cut short by dusk - certainly a good enough reason to disrupt society in general. He got his proposal into the British parliament but it never got enacted until 1916. The United States only used DST during wartime. Congress wanted to repeal daylight saving in 1920, but president Woodrow Wilson (another avid golfer!) twice vetoed them. In the mid-1980s 7-Eleven and Kingsford charcoal funded a DST Coalition, and in 1987 US DST was extended. Idaho senators said it would sell more french fries. The National Golf Foundation attested that DST would increase golf revenues by $200 to $300 million a year!
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 14:42:24 +0000

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