1907年,英国伦敦的企业家威廉·威利特曾撰写过一篇题为《论日光的浪费》的文章,呼吁人们早睡早起,以便利用自然光源,节约费用。为在英国开展一场“争取每年夏季将时针向前拨80分钟”的运动,他提供了一大笔宣传经费,并利用自己的企业进行夏时制试验,取得了可观的经济效益。威廉·威利特认为,实行夏时制仅节约照明煤油一项,就相当于英国的全部国债。当他的建议被提交英国议会表决时,却受到农场主 In 1907, William Willite, an entrepreneur in London, England, wrote an essay entitled “Waste of the Sunlight,” calling on people to go to bed early and get up early in order to use natural light to save money. In order to launch a campaign in the United Kingdom to “hold an average of 80 minutes a day” in summer, he provided a large sum of money for publicity and used his own company for daylight-time testing, resulting in considerable economic benefits. William Willlitter believes that the implementation of daylight saving time only a kerosene lighting, the equivalent of all the British government bonds. When his suggestion was submitted to the British Parliament for voting, but by the farmer