Daylight Saving Time (DST), often mistakenly called “daylight savings time,” is the seasonal practice of advancing clocks by one hour. This shifts a block of daylight from the morning to the evening to better align with typical waking hours. How It Works
Spring Forward: Clocks move ahead one hour on the second Sunday of March, skipping from 2:00 AM to 3:00 AM. This results in losing an hour of sleep but gives later sunsets.
Fall Back: Clocks move back one hour on the first Sunday of November, reverting from 2:00 AM to 1:00 AM. This yields an extra hour of sleep and returns the schedule to Standard Time. Brief History
The Idea: Benjamin Franklin first playfully suggested a version of it in 1784. It was later seriously proposed by New Zealand scientist George Hudson in 1895 to give him more evening hours to collect insects.
First Adoption: Germany became the first nation to implement DST in 1916 during World War I to ration fuel and conserve artificial lighting energy.
Global Spread: Many nations like the UK and the United States followed shortly after. The U.S. later standardized the practice through the Uniform Time Act of 1966. Pros and Cons Daylight Saving Time