Daylight Savings 2012 Weekend: Fall Back

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise," said Benjamin Franklin, one of the original champions of Daylight Saving Time.

At 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4, time will fall back an hour with the shift from Daylight Saving Time  (DST) to standard time. You can thank Benjamin Franklin for this. According to the book Seize the Daylight by David Perau, Franklin was was living in Paris when he was awoken by sunlight coming in through the windows. "An accidental sudden noise waked me about six in the morning when I was surprised to find my room filled with light," Franklin wrote in a letter to the Journal de Paris, according Perau. "I imagined at first that a number of lamps had been brought into the room; but rubbing my eyes I perceived the light came in at the windows." What followed was a plan to save Paris' money by relying by optimizing sunlight rather than pricey …

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