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Its that time again to change the clocks ahead one hour and spring ahead. This Sunday, March 8th, Daylight Savings Time officially begins at 2 am.
Here are some interesting facts about Daylight Savings Time that you might not have known.

1. More than a half a century before any country adapted Daylight Savings Time; Benjamin Franklin proposed a similar concept in 1784. Franklin pitched the idea as a money saver but the first official credit for Daylight Savings Time is credited to a Bug Collector in New Zealand in 1895. His idea was banned but two decades later, the concept was adapted by most of the world.

2. World War I pushed Daylight Savings Time into Law. In 1916, Germany was the first country to officially adapt the concept in effort to conserve coal…

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