I have been thinking about DST. Why do we have to do it? Here's what I found out.
Daylight Saving Time let's enjoy sunny summer evenings by moving our clocks an hour forward in the spring.
The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time (called "Summer Time" in many places in the world) is to use the daylight better. We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. Countries have different change dates.
The idea of daylight saving was first envisioned by Benjamin Franklin during his time as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, "An Economical Project."
Daylight Savings Time begins at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday of March and ends at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of November.
Today, approximately 70 countries use Daylight Saving Time in at least a portion of the country. Japan, India, and China are the only major industrialized countries that do not observe some form of daylight saving.
Information gathered from: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/
