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Endless Summer: The EU Looks to End Daylight-Saving Time

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When Benjamin Franklin suggested Parisians could save candle wax by rising with the sun instead of around noon, the 18th-century polymath couldn’t have imagined…
When Benjamin Franklin suggested Parisians could save candle wax by rising with the sun instead of around noon, the 18th-century polymath couldn’t have imagined the debate over what time its citizens kept would still vex European nations in 2018.
But more than 230 years later, the European Union is proposing to abolish the twice yearly clock change that extends daylight hours in summer evenings and makes winter mornings brighter, after a poll found Europeans overwhelmingly dislike the effects of altering their watches by an…

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