Bitchin Dave's Newsletter - October 28th
This coming weekend, we once again change our clocks. What you may not know is that Benjamin Franklin is kind of the originator of the idea for Daylight Savings Time. It comes from his time in France, as a new candle had been invented that didn't produce smoke. He was captivated by it and it stoked his imagination. Being a thinker and a scientist, he considered how important candles were to life. Once it got to be dark, you had to light one to see anything. And over the course of an evening, a week, a month, or a year, he ran through many candles. How many? He ran the numbers. And then he wrote a short piece about how if there was more daylight, then the need for candles would be reduced. He determined that Parisians could save millions of French Livre every year if they had an hour of extra daylight, and didn't have to buy candles for that period of time with more light. That was pure Franklin magic. He was good at dissecting a topic and giving a point of view that wa...