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10 Things You May Not Know About Daylight Saving Time

For most of the United States, this weekend sees the return of clock confusion—and heated debate.
Many Americans will spring forward an hour to mark the beginning of daylight savings time (DST)—also known as daylight saving time. At 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 13. Time will fall back to standard time again on Sunday, November 6, when DST ends. The annual adventure in altered timekeeping has produced some entertaining and exasperating situations over the past century. Here are some strange-but-true facts you might not know about daylight savings time.  
1. It’s “daylight saving time,” not “daylight savings time.” Often mistakenly called daylight savings time, its official name in the U.S. is Daylight Saving Time.
In European countries, it is called Summer Time.  

2. Though in favor of maximizing daylight waking hours, Benjamin Franklin did not originate the idea of moving clocks forward.
By the time he was a 78-year-old American envoy in Paris in 1784, the man who espoused the virtues of “early to bed and early to rise” was not practicing what he preached.
After being unpleasantly stirred from sleep at 6 a.m. by the summer sun, the founding father penned a satirical essay in which he calculated that Parisians, simply by waking up at dawn, could ... more

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