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Spring Forward!

  • March 10, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

New Zealand scientist George V. Hudson proposed the idea of Daylight Saving Time in 1895. An expert on insects, he valued the hours after work, when it was light enough to collect specimens. That gave him the idea to turn clocks forward and create more after-work daylight.

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