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Although many credit Englishman William Willet with inventing daylight savings time, it was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson.

Germany, its World War I allies, and their occupied zones were the first European nations to use Daylight Savings Time, starting April 30, 1916, as a way to conserve coal during wartime.

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