Daylight Saving Time Facts

It's Daylight Saving Time! So, Sunday at 2AM, it will be time to turn your clocks forward ("Spring Ahead, Fall Behind!") one hour.

We found some fun facts about Daylight Saving Time from Huffington Post:

1. Contrary to popular belief, DST was not invented by Benjamin Franklin, although he did satirically and anonymously propose the idea to Parisians 1784. Eventually proposed and lobbied for by an Englishman, William Wilmett, in 1905, it was actually the Germans and their WWI allies that began using it first. The US was the last to follow suit.

2. Apparently, the correct terminology is "Daylight Saving Time", not Daylight SavingS Time, as we've been happily calling it all these years.

3. Hawaii, Arizona, Puerto Rico and some other warm places don't observe DST because, well, they're just so darn sunny all the time.

4. DST causes a 5% reduction in crashes fatal to pedestrians, so for the next 6 months, it's officially 5% safer for you to cross the road without looking both ways.