Daylight Saving Time

Find out why summer daylight hours are so blissfully long in this BrainPOP UK movie on daylight saving time! In this educational, animated movie, Tim and Moby will teach you how and why summer time works, and give you the history and reasoning behind the twice-a-year time change. You’ll learn how American, Benjamin Franklin was the first to propose “saving” daylight, why the British government refused to accept the idea, despite the intense lobbying of one William Willett. Plus why it took World War I to finally make the government see sense. Find out too, why, once adopted, the system was adjusted several times to maximize its benefits. Don’t forget to move the clocks!

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