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Samoa scraps daylight saving time, it's time for the rest of the world to follow suit
Thursday September 23, 2021. 04:45 PM , from BoingBoing
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
https://boingboing.net/2021/09/23/samoa-scraps-daylight-saving-time-its-time-for-the-rest-of-the-wor...
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