It's Time to Spring Forward

It's that time of year again, when the short, cold days of winter are behind us. It's time to "spring forward." So don't forget to set your clocks an hour ahead before you go to bed on Saturday for Daylight Saving Time, which starts Sunday.

According to TimeandDate.com, "Benjamin Franklin first suggested Daylight Saving Time in 1784, but modern DST was not proposed until 1895 when an entomologist from New Zealand, George Vernon Hudson, presented a proposal for a two-hour daylight saving shift to the Wellington Philosophical Society. The conception of DST was mainly credited to an English builder, William Willett in 1905, when he presented the idea to advance the clock during the summer months. His proposal was published two years later and introduced to the House of Commons in February 1908. The first Daylight Saving Bill was examined by a select committee but was never made into a law. It wasn't until World War I, in 1916, that DST was adopted and implemented by several countries in Europe who initially rejected the idea."

To learn more about DST, visit timeanddate.com.