While living in Paris in 1784, Benjamin Franklin wrote a satirical essay,[1] in which he suggested that Parisians get up earlier in the morning.
Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson in 1895.
[2] William Willett, a London building contractor, independently invented DST and pitched it to the British Parliament in 1907.
In 1917, spurred on perhaps by the recent adoptions of DST in Europe, Anderson introduced a third bill which passed on June 17, 1917.
It is not clear exactly when clocks were put ahead in 1917, as the bill became law one week after DST was scheduled to take effect.