In her letter to Lincoln she mentioned that she had been advocating a national thanksgiving date for 15 years as the editor of Godey's Lady's Book. George Washington was the first president to proclaim a day of thanksgiving, issuing his request on October 3, 1789, exactly 74 years before Lincoln's.
Follow-the-sun is a workflow model in which work is passed on to the offices located in different time zones. In this way work is done round-the-clock thereby reducing the project or support duration and increasing the responsiveness.
English follow, which is constructed of similar roots. Meaning planet that revolves about a larger one first attested 1660s, in reference to the moons of Jupiter, from Latin satellites, which was used in this sense 1610s by German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630).