Daylight Savings Time

Many learners want to know why we change our clocks?

Here is the origin: (from National Geographic)

Ben Franklin—of "early to bed and early to rise" fame—was apparently the first person to suggest the concept of daylight savings, according to computer scientist David Prerau, author of the book Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time.

While serving as U.S. ambassador to France in Paris, Franklin wrote of being awakened at 6 a.m. and realizing, to his surprise, that thesun would rise far earlier than he usually did. Imagine the resources that might be saved if he and others rose before noon and burned less midnight oil, Franklin, tongue half in cheek, wrote to a newspaper.

So we use it to get more daylight hours and in Canada it gets dark very quickly in the winter.  How do you feel about it?

Here are some words to check the meanings of:

circadian rhythm

energy

season

ahead

behind/back

nap

Don't forget to change your clocks AHEAD by one hour when you go to sleep on Saturday night.  

You will then 'lose' an hour.  

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