It’s that time of year again… set the clock back at 2:00am Sunday morning. But where did this custom come from? Let’s take a look…

1. Its “daylight saving time,” not “daylight savings time.”
2. Though in favor of maximizing daylight waking hours, Benjamin Franklin did not originate the idea of moving clocks forward.
3. Englishman William Willett led the first campaign to implement daylight saving time.
4. Germany was the first country to enact daylight saving time.
5. Daylight saving time in the United States was not intended to benefit farmers, as many people think.
6. For decades, daylight saving in the United States was a confounding patchwork of local practices.
7. Not everyone in the United States springs forward and falls back.
8. Evidence does not conclusively point to energy conservation as a result of daylight saving.

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