George Hudson

While most people complained about long workdays, he proposed shifting the entire national clock – because that’s what you do when you really, really want to catch beetles.

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20 April 1867
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Entomologist
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England – New Zealand

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"It cannot be strongly borne in mind that the time standard in ordinary use – i.e., the mean solar day – is merely an abstraction devised for human convenience, and does not represent any actual time interval existing in nature."