* tz-art.htm: Mention Franklin’s joke (from a suggestion by Steve All…

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@@ -491,6 +491,22 @@ <h2>Comics</h2>
 <h2>Jokes</h2>
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 <li>
+The idea behind daylight saving time was first proposed as a joke by
+Benjamin Franklin. To enforce it, he suggested, "Every
+morning, as soon as the sun rises, let all the bells in every church
+be set ringing; and if that is not sufficient, let cannon be fired in
+every street, to wake the sluggards effectually, and make them open
+their eyes to see their true interest. All the difficulty will be in
+the first two or three days: after which the reformation will be as
+natural and easy as the present irregularity; for, <em>ce n'est que le
+premier pas qui co&ucirc;te</em>."
+<a href="http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html">Franklin's
+joke</a> was first published on 1784-04-26 by the
+<em>Journal de Paris</em> as <a
+href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin-Benjamin-Journal-de-Paris-1784.jpg">an
+anonymous letter translated into French</a>.
+</li>
+<li>
 "We've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492.
 Now that's pretty near 100 years, daylight saving."
 (Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in <em>Animal Crackers</em>, 1930,