Daylight Saving

Daylight saving was first invented by William Willet (indeed he's British from Kent, only British can think of this kind of thing :p), but it was only first put into practice by the German government during the World War I, between April and October 1916. Unfortunately, William Willet died in March 1915 and didn't manage to watch his idea being implemented.

It's quite interesting to read the history and origin of the idea of daylight saving. The idea was promoted to save more coal during the coal crisis in the World War. The savings are spent on more evening activities which get more daylight, rather than being wasted during the sleep past dawn, in other way, they claim by implying Daylight Saving, more energy can be saved.

Apparently there are many debates on the pros and cons of the Daylight Saving. One funny point that was raised is what would a doctor do when a pair of twins were born during the autum daylight saving period (when the clock turns back from 3am to 2am). It will be really confusing if Baby A was born at 2.55am and Baby B was born at 3.10am. Will the doctor take that as Baby B was born at 2.10am, if that's the case then Baby B will be elder than Baby A...hmmm..interesting...

Okay..got to pack my stuff now....sneaking off....