This year, Daylight Saving Time is on March 12. This means that the number of sunlit hours will increase, and clocks need to be moved forward an hour to accommodate.

Moving clocks forward an hour allows people to utilize the additional sunlit hours during the evening, rather than struggling to sleep through them in the morning.

According to science.howstuffworks.com, Benjamin Franklin is credited with discovering this way to manipulate time. While serving as U.S. ambassador to France, he awoke at 6 am to find everyone else still sleeping, shutters drawn tight to block the sun. They were wasting sunlit hours sleeping and burning candles longer into the evening in order to complete their work. Ole Frankie found this silly, as it burns wax and money, and proposed this idea of Daylight Saving Time.

Timeanddate.com claims that Daylight Saving Time was first used in Saskatchewan, Canada. Germany was the first country to utilize Daylight Saving Time in order to save fuel during World War I. By decreasing the number of hours they had to light artificially, they saved resources, and in turn, money.

Regardless of how Daylight Saving Time came about, enjoy the longer, sunnier days to come, and do not forget to move all clocks forward one hour.