Spring Forward. Fall Back. What time do you got?

During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, author of the proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise", anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.[14] This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.[15] Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep accurate schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day.[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

Some people hate it: Penn is thinking about making it a cause.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEcqEWDfm60

My mother always reminded me about the changes in time.
If your mother did not. You are late.


Official Website for DST: Note DOD is removing this site to cut costs. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.php
In terms of saving energy: It seems to be a wash.
So there is no scientific reason for Day Light Savings Time.
We just like playing golf in the evenings.

For the world view of DST:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time