Mom lost an hour of sleep. She wants to know why we still do this.

So does Daniel.

Most people think daylight saving time goes back to Benjamin Franklin. It sort of does -- except Franklin never proposed changing the clocks. What he actually suggested was taxing people who had shutters on their windows, limiting how much candle wax a family could own, and firing cannons in the streets at sunrise to scare Parisians out of bed. He was trolling. The clocks idea came from someone else entirely.

Two people, actually.

A postal worker in New Zealand named George Hudson who collected insects as a hobby and was frustrated that his evening shift ended too late for bug hunting. And a British builder named William Willett, who published a pamphlet in 1907 called The Waste of Daylight -- because he was an avid golfer and the sunset kep ...