What To Know about Daylight Saving Time?

What is Daylight Saving Time?
Daylight Saving Time is a way to conserve energy by utilizing more hours of sunlight as a natural source. The timeframe in which the sun rises and sets already depends on the season we’re in. So, moving the clock forward an hour in the spring from Standard Time to DST is a way to do that.
Likewise, moving the clock backward from DST to Standard Time in the fall, heading into the winter, has a counter-impact, allowing us to adapt to the new season. This method was introduced to the U.S. in 1918, initially being deemed “fast time.” Now being used for more than just one sole purpose, the U.S. is one of 70 countries around the globe to have adapted DST.
Why do we have Daylight Saving Time?                                                                    A few stories prevail about how the United States adopted the time change. Benjamin Franklin wrote an early “proposition” in a 1784 letter to The Journal of Paris, where he suggested the city could save 64,050,000 pounds of candle wax burned if only its citizens would rise with the sun. He also suggested firing cannons in every street as a city-wide alarm clock, so the letter is taken mainly as satire (thank goodness)…
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