Don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour this weekend as Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday November first. Many of us relish that extra hour just as much as we loath losing an hour each spring.
The practice itself has a long history in the U.S. It was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin back in the late 1700s, but wasn’t actually implemented for the first time until 1918.
Having to adjust our circadian rhythms twice each year prompts many to wonder why we continue doing it at all. And as we prepare to “fall back” this weekend News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams has an additional query: How to spend that extra hour.