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American History

• Life's Little Mysteries

The idea of resetting clocks forward an hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall was first suggested by Benjamin Franklin in "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light," published in April 1784, as a way to save electricity.

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