Modern daylight savings time (DST) was initially projected by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, whose shift-work occupation provided him spare time to amass insects, and made him responsive to the worth of after-hours daylight. In the year 1895, he demonstrated a document to the Wellington Philosophical Society suggesting a two-hour daylight-saving shift, and after significant curiosity was showed in Christchurch, New Zealand he followed up in an 1898 paper.