September 23, 2021 02:45 pm GMT
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Samoa scraps daylight saving time, it's time for the rest of the world to follow suit
Daylight saving wasn't implemented to trick farmers into getting up early, as popular myth suggests. It was first proposed in 1895 for a much more important reason so entomologist and astronomer George Hudson could study insects at night.
Hudson is dead, so daylight saving is no longer necessary. — Read the rest
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