He wanted to have more daylight hours to devote to collecting and examining insects. In 1895, New Zealand entomologist and astronomer George Hudson seriously proposed the idea of changing clocks by two hours every spring to the Wellington Philosophical Society.
In a satirical letter to the editor of The Journal of Paris, the American inventor suggested that waking up earlier in the summer would economize candle usage and calculated considerable savings. The idea of aligning waking hours to daylight hours to conserve candles was first proposed in 1784 by American Benjamin Franklin.
