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his new book spring forward the annual madness of daylight savings time gives us a detailed look at something we all participate in although we have little understanding about why we spring forward and fall back each year. almost 100 years ago congress and lawmakers in every state first debated, ridiculed and the passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour of daylight. no one can say for sure why we are required by law to change our clocks twice a year. the first to post this scheme? the most authoritative sources suggest that it was a pittsburgh industrialist, woodrow wilson. a man on a horse in london. a manhattan socialite, benjamin franklin, one of dashboard in on his makers of anxious chinese and japanese water clocks. spring forward is a portrait of public policy in the 20th century, a perennial cauldron of unsubstantiated science profiteering piety and mr. renacci shifting timezone boundaries. it is a true delight social comedy with congress in the le
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