What do bug collectors and Benjamin Franklin have in common?

The answer might rock your clock.

Today, we're sleeping in an extra hour and talking about daylight saving time.

I'm Bethany Van Delft.

It's Thursday, November 4th, and this is the 10 News.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

On November 7th, daylight saving time ends.

We're falling back and turning our clocks back an hour. Have you ever wondered

how daylight saving time came about? Correspondent Anya Schultz is here to tell us how founding

father Benjamin Franklin played a part. Did you know that more than a hundred years before anyone used daylight saving time, Benjamin Franklin brought it up as a joke about candles?

Really?

He was on a trip to Paris when a loud noise woke him up super early in the morning at 6 a.m.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that the sun was already out. This gave him an idea.

If the people of Paris moved their clocks to make more use of the daylight, they could save a lot

of money on candles. He published his idea in an essay in 1784.

Fast forward to now, and there's 70 countries that use daylight saving time. So what is it?

Daylight saving is the practice of changing our clocks twice each year to line up the time we're awake with when the sun's out. An easy way to remember it is with the expression spring forward and fall back.

In March, we spring forward or move our clocks one hour ahead.

That way, we can get more daylight during the long summer days.

And in the fall, we move the clock back an hour like we did this week,

so we won't have to wake up in the darkness during the winter months.

Spring forward and fall back.

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