Daylight-Saving Time, an idea Benjamin Franklin brought to the United States from Europe, returns to most of the nation this Sunday.
The official change occurs at 2 a.m. local time, Sunday, March 13, when the time instantly becomes 3 a.m., when clocks and watches are moved forward one hour.
Remember the phrase “Spring, forward, and Fall, back”, for a good reminder.
However, most people find it easier to set their time-pieces forward an hour Saturday night, before going to bed.
For resetting of clocks–the hour that will be regained this year is at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, when time is turned backward to 1 a.m., when Standard Time comes back.
When Benjamin Franklin was United States’ minister to France, he wrote an article recommending that stores keep earlier hours to save the cost of lighting.
For the nation’s first few decades, daylight time was observed by scattered individual communities.
Congress first got into the act in 1918 with the passage of “an act to save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States.