Re: [tz] Article proposes end of DST, adds interesting historic reference

Steve Jones wrote:

Further clicking led me to the full letter from Ben: http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html

which I think is tz-art worthy.

Good idea; thanks. Although that copy of Ben's joke has typos, it's the most-accessible copy and I suppose it's good enough. I also tracked down an image of the first publication of Franklin's joke (in French! I assume he translated it himself) and installed the attached proposed patch.