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In 2005, Congress extended Daylight Saving Time by four weeks. Excerpts of this article appeared in previous Weather News entries at this time of the year as we said goodbye to Daylight-Saving-Time. Daylight-Saving-Time makes the sun "set" one hour later, reducing the period between sunset and bedtime by one hour. It was first mentioned by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 and advocated by London builder William Wellett in his pamphlet "Waste of Daylight." He proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes over four Sundays in April and retarding them by the same amount over four Sundays in September. In 1916, England followed Germany and adopted "British Summer Time." During World War II, clocks were put two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time in what is called Double Summer Time.