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Why fiddle with our clocks?

British summer time is no ancient tradition but, like many dictatorial novelties, a creature of war. It was proposed in
1915 by a house-builder, William Willett, to give himself an extra hour to play golf, and was taken up by Winston
Churchill to save coa

Simon Jenkins, "Why fiddle with our clocks?," Dawn. 2011-10-15.
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