Daylight Saving Time Begins Sunday Morning
First of all, it's Daylight Saving Time, not savings. And we set our clock back one hour at 2 am. Sunday morning.
According to the History Channel, most people credit Benjamin Franklin with the concept of Daylight Saving Time, but it wasn't. He wrote an essay about adjusting sleep schedules, but he didn't propose adjusting the clocks.
Englishman William Willett, a little over one hundred years ago, suggested turning clocks forward and back bi-annually.He published a brochure in 1907, “The Waste of Daylight” and spent a fortune pushing for the adoption of “summer time.”
But it was Germany, England's foe in World War I that became the first nation to adopt Daylight Saving Time in 1916.
And something that may surprise many, it wasn't the farmers who pushed for it here in the U.S. In fact, they were against it. DST started during World War I, but as that ended, farmers wanted it repealed. It was urban interests, such as retail outlets and recreational activities, that kept it going.
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