RE: Daylight Savings Time

["Hall, Philip" <phall@xxxxxxxx>]

Al Barsa wrote, in part:

> With all due respect, this was just another thong that was ripped of by
> the
> Brits from the US.  Ben Franklin invented it in 1784, which according to
> your link was 123 years after Franklin invented it:-)))))))))

However, same said article states - and concentrate very hard on the final sentence:

" Benjamin Franklin, author of the proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise", anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.[14] This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.[15] Franklin did not propose DST"

Followed immediately by;

"The prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett invented DST in 1905 during one..."

Notice the ninth word in the above sentence.