Daylight Savings Time

Benjamin Franklin first mentioned Daylight Savings Time in passing in 1784 as a joke. William Willett first seriously proposed Daylight Savings Time in 1907 but the British Government wouldn’t adopt it. Speaking of which, North Americans refer to it as Daylight Savings Time or DST, while Europeans know it as Summer Time.

Traditionally Daylight Savings Time (DST) or Summer Time ran from 2 am on either the last Sunday of March or the first Sunday of April to 2 am on the last Sunday of October. Effective 2007, the United States Government changed the official duration of Daylight Savings Time as an experiment. Now Daylight Savings Time officially begins at 2 am on the second Sunday of March and ends at 2 am on the first Sunday of November.