daylight saving

Ben Franklin’s Proposal of Something Like Daylight Saving Time was Written as a Joke

May 10, 2012 Daven Hiskey

Today I found out Ben Franklin’s proposal of something like daylight saving time was written as a joke. In a comedic letter he wrote, An Economical Project (published in 1784), “to the authors of the journal of Paris”, Franklin mentions something like daylight saving time. Although, instead of changing clocks, he suggested ringing church bells and firing cannons, among other things, as […]

It’s “Daylight Saving Time” Not “Daylight Savings Time”

March 15, 2010 Daven Hiskey

Today I found out it’s “daylight saving time”, not “daylight savings time”. “Daylight saving time” uses the present participle “saving” as an adjective, as in “labor saving device”. Bonus Facts: Ben Franklin often gets credit for being the “genius” who came up with daylight saving time. Interestingly though, the letter he proposed something like what we now call daylight […]