Daylight Savings Time is here.
While Benjamin Franklin jokingly suggested a form of daylight savings time to Paris so as to save on candles, Englishman William Willett is said to have invented modern DST in 1905. Although he pushed the idea until his death in 1915, it was never adopted. It wasn’t until the Germans and their allies used the time “saving” device in 1916 during WWI (followed by the British and their allies soon after and the USA in 1918) that Daylight Savings Time really got a toe hold.
The exact date of the time change has fluctuated with the years. This year, it’s been moved to March 8/9 Sunday at 2 AM. So don’t forget to turn those clocks ahead one hour when you go to sleep tonight. (Unless you live in Arizona or Hawaii. Those states do not have Daylight Saving Time.)
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