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1917 poster celebrating Daylight SavingsUniversal History Archive / UIG / Getty ImagesBy Olivia B. WaxmanUpdated: November 1, 2017 11:05 AM EDT | Originally published: November 4, 2016 9:00 AM EDTWhen American clocks turn back an hour at 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Nov. 5, that event will be just one more iteration of a practicemdash;however unpleasant to somemdash;to which Americans and many others around the world are well accustomed. But Daylight Saving Time wasn ;t always such a routine idea.The first Daylight Saving Time policy began in Germany on May 1, 1916, in the hopes that it would save energy during World War I, according to Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time. But, though Germans were first to mess with their clocks, they likely got the idea from Britainmdash;and from someone whose ideas about Daylight Saving had little to do with conserving fuel.William Willett stanley cup had in 1907 published The Waste of Daylight. Willett was inspired by an early-morning epiphany that the sun shines upon the land for several hours each day while we are asleep and yet there remains only a brief spell of declining daylight in which to spend the short period of leisure at our disposal. Though he did mention that it would s stanley cup ave money to reduce the use of artificial lighting, his main purpose was the increase enjoyment of sunlight. He lobbied Parliame stanley cup nt for such legislation until his death in 1915mdash;not livi Lqay At Home in the World
A commuter rides an e-scooter across a Los Angeles street on August 22, 2019, where an e-scooter enforcement task force has been launched in an effort to ensure riders follow the laws.Frederic J. Brown鈥擜FP/Getty ImagesBy Lisa Abend / CopenhagenAugust 27, 2019 12:36 PM EDTIt was five orsquo;clock on a recent Monday afternoon, and at one of the busiest connectors between the cityrsquo center and its surrounding neighborhoods, rush hour was in full swing. Hundreds of vehicles flowed across Dronning Louisersquo bridge every minute, but this being Copenhagen, the vast majority of th adidas samba em 8211 ome 48,000 by dayrsquo end were bicycles, not cars. Among the surging tide of cargo bikes, fixies, and plain, old-fashioned two-wheelers, two tourists stood upright on e-scooters, their uncertain converse weaving prompting a few angry chimes from passing bike bells. From the sidewalk, Marie Djernes, a 24-year-old student who was standing next to her own bike as she waited for a friend, watched the scene with bemusement. Yeah, theyrsquo;re a bit annoying, she said. They donrsquo;t really seem to know what theyrsquo;re doing. Bird, Lime, Circ, Tier, Dott, Voi, Volo, Scoot, Trotti, Poppi: since making their first appearance in California adidas campus in 2017, electric scooters with names that sound like modern-day versions of Snow Whitersquo dwarves have popped up in over 100 cities worldwide, the progeny of companies aiming to become the next Uber of alternative tran |
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