Daylight-saving time ends on Nov. 5, but what’s the story behind why we turn our clocks back? And did Benjamin Franklin really come up with the idea for the whole thing?
Yes, it will soon be time to fall back: Daylight-saving time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 5. That means 2 a.m. becomes 1 a.m., so be prepared to adjust your clocks accordingly.
Franklin was being a bit playful. But the idea of daylight-saving was more or less formalized by a New Zealand entomologist — one George Vernon Hudson — if you can imagine. Hudson liked collecting bugs, and more daylight meant more, well, bugs. So he wrote a paper proposing the time shift and presented it in 1895.
And we’ve been doing it ever since 1918? Not quite. In fact, the U.S. discontinued daylight-saving time by 1919 — at least on a national scale, although some states and municipalities carried on with the practice. It returned on a national level from 1942 to 1945, tied to World War II, after which it was again up to individual locales to decide whether they wanted to spring forward and fall back each year.
As for Hawaii, the World Population Review website reasons that, due to the state’s location, “there are fewer variations between winter and summer daylight hours, so it makes sense to not have” daylight-saving time.
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