Good news, the dark days of winter are coming to a close. The bad news, you will lose an hour of sleep this weekend. At 2 a.m. on March 08, 2015, sleepy-eyed Americans in most U.S. states will turn their clocks forward one hour, marking the beginning of Daylight Saving Time. There is more to […]

The idea of daylight saving time was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin in 1784. He published an essay titled “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” that proposed to economize the use of candles by rising earlier to make use of the morning sunlight. However, The invention of DST was mainly credited to […]