DAYLIGHT SAVING
JAPAN THE BEAL PIONEER Daylight saving in summer time in England, as in New Zealand, though ncFw it seems part of the natural order of things, is a comparatively new idea. But if one goes farther afield it has quite a respectable history. The Japanese were the real pioneers of •“daylight saving.” Thy used to divide each day into twelve hours, and so arranged matters that the sun always rose at 6 in the morning and set at (i at night. This meant that the hours of daylight were long throughout the summer, and those of night were short, and was perhaps the most perfect day. light saving method ever invented. In winter, of course, the reverse held good —the daylight hours were short and the night ones long.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 286, 2 December 1929, Page 9
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131DAYLIGHT SAVING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 286, 2 December 1929, Page 9
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