Tick, tock. Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November at 2 a.m. You know the drill: In the spring, turn clocks ahead one hour; in the fall, turn them back an hour. While you’re at it, delight your friends with the following DST dossier.
The name is a singular sensation
It’s Saving, not Savings, time — and it’s designed to make better use of morning hours and shrink energy bills. But it also means that you can go for a run after work outdoors and it’s still sort of light out in warmer weather. Respect, people. Say it right.
An American in Paris had the bright idea 233 years ago
Inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin pitched the notion of waking up an hour earlier to save on candles as a delegate in France in 1784. He wrote about it in an essay — “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” — to the editor of The Journal of Paris. It was a long time before the idea was actually established. Port Arthur — now called Thunder Bay — in Ontario, Canada, became the first location to use DST in July 1908.
America followed suit a decade later Read More Here …