He was a delegate to the Continental Congress, was appointed postmaster general, and was sent to Canada with Samuel Chase and Charles Carroll of Carrollton to persuade the people of Canada to join the patriot cause. He was appointed (1776) to the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, which he signed.

Here are some of Benjamin Franklin’s most significant inventions:

• Lightning Rod.
• Bifocals.
• Franklin Stove.
• Armonica.

As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions.

Odometer. The odometer has been around since ancient times; Franklin did not invent it but adapted it in a way that had not been used before. Franklin became Postmaster General in 1753 and sought to improve the post office service and make it more profitable.

Daylight saving time is one thing that Franklin did not invent. He merely suggested Parisians change their sleep schedules to save money on candles and lamp oil. The common misconception comes from a satirical essay he wrote in the spring of 1784 that was published in the Journal de Paris.

Clocks in the German Empire, and its ally Austria, were turned ahead by one hour on April 30, 1916—2 years into World War I. The rationale was to minimize the use of artificial lighting to save fuel for the war effort. Within a few weeks, the idea was followed by the United Kingdom, France, and many other countries.

George Hudson

Hawaii and Arizona are the only two states that do not observe daylight saving time. Critics of our current DST schedule argue that changing the clocks twice a year disrupts sleep schedules, increases car accidents as well as the risk of heart attacks, seasonal depression and other health issues.

DST became law in the U.S. in 1966, with the start and end dates extended twice since, leading to the current eight-month span. States can opt out of daylight saving and stick with standard time permanently — which is the case with Arizona, Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

Whether you’re changing the clock forward or backward, it can have a negative impact on a person’s circadian rhythm. It can take five to seven days for your body to adjust to the new time schedule, reports the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and that disruption in sleep can lead to even bigger health issues.

Under the “Sunshine Protection Act of 2021,” daylight saving time would be made permanent and the majority of the U.S. — Hawaii and parts of Arizona already don’t observe the time changes — would not have to “fall back” come again November.

Arizona observed DST in 1967 under the Uniform Time Act because the state legislature did not enact an exemption statute that year. In March 1968 the DST exemption statute was enacted and the state of Arizona has not observed DST since 1967. This is in large part intended to conserve energy.

Which Provinces and Territories in Canada don’t use DST? Yukon, most of Saskatchewan, some locations in Québec east of 63° westerly longitude (e.g. Blanc-Sablon), Southampton Island, and some areas in British Columbia don’t use DST and stay on standard time all year.

Daylight saving time will end Nov. 7. In November last year, the Ontario government passed legislation that would end the bi-annual changing of clocks, making daylight time permanent in the province—but the change will only happen if neighbouring jurisdictions agree.

The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time (called “Summer Time” in many places in the world) is to make better use of daylight. We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening.

Daylight Saving Time Today Today, most Americans spring forward (turn clocks ahead and lose an hour) on the second Sunday in March (at 2:00 A.M.) and fall back (turn clocks back and gain an hour) on the first Sunday in November (at 2:00 A.M.).

When does the time change in 2020? The official time for people to turn the clocks back an hour is at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1, meaning the time will go back to 1 a.m. You might get an “extra” hour of sleep that day, but it will also begin to get darker earlier in the day.

Since 1966, that’s 52 hours you have had to repeat, or in other words 52 hours in the negative direction. If DST wasn’t invented, it would currently be Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 1:00 P.M. You would be late to work two days in a row and are probably already fired.

No, it’s not a magic trick — it’s Daylight Saving Time! Daylight Saving Time (or “Summer Time,” as it’s known in many parts of the world) was created to make better use of the long sunlight hours of the summer. On the first Sunday in November, we “fall back” and rewind our clocks to return to Standard Time.

In the U.S., 2:00 a.m. was originally chosen as the changeover time because it was practical and minimized disruption. Most people were at home and this was the time when the fewest trains were running.

President Roosevelt

In fact, this twice-a-year desynchronization of our body clocks has been linked to increased health risks such as depression, obesity, heart attack, cancer, and even car accidents.

MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio – Members of northeast Ohio’s Amish community are among the remaining holdouts to daylight-saving time, refusing to move their clocks forward an hour when standard time ends. Federal law does not require any area to observe daylight-saving time, and a few parts of the country have opted not to do so.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( Pub. L. 109–58 (text) (pdf)) is a federal law signed by President George W. Bush on August 8, 2005, at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S. Code Section 260a) [see law], signed into Public Law 89-387 on April 12, 1966, by President Lyndon Johnson, created Daylight Saving Time to begin on the last Sunday of April and to end on the last Sunday of October.

The provisions of the bill called for Daylight Saving Time to begin three weeks earlier on the second Sunday in March and end one week later on the first Sunday in November. While polls indicated most people favored extending Daylight Saving Time, there were opponents who fought against the extension.

George Hudson proposed the idea of daylight saving in 1895. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary organized the first nationwide implementation starting on April 30, 1916. Many countries have used it at various times since then, particularly since the 1970s energy crisis.

The Reasoning Behind Changing Daylight-Saving The upcoming shift in the daylight-saving time change is designed to help retailers — and is a substitute for a genuine energy policy, says author Michael Downing. Congress moved the time shift up this year.

Benjamin Franklin, the most distinguished scientific and literary American of the colonial era, was the first American diplomat. Franklin served from 1776 to 1778 on a commission to France charged with the critical task of gaining French support for American independence.

Yet, for most of his life, Benjamin Franklin was a dyed-in-the-wool British patriot, as George Goodwin explains… When the 84-year-old Benjamin Franklin died in Philadelphia in 1790, he was revered as an American founding father and patriot.