“It is not generally that a measure of this kind of a startling character as the Daylight Saving Monthly bill is introduced into the English Residence of Commons. The actuality that the momentous changes advocated are proposed by William Willett, a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, implies that the measure could not be so chimerical as might be meant. It is proposed throughout component of the spring and autumn, and the entire of the summer time, to progress the clocks all over the region, with a perspective to which includes in the doing work several hours a longer stretch of daylight. Between the commercial pros are that huge users of gasoline and other synthetic mild would realize a conserving of $15,000,000. To the average personal, nevertheless, the most desirable element of the proposed transform is that it would manage a longer stretch of daylight for recreation.”

—Scientific American, August 1908

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