Time is of the essence today: The second Sunday of March marks the start of daylight saving time. At 2 AM the clocks sprang forward one hour, meaning there will be an extra hour of daylight this evening. While Benjamin Franklin is often credited with inventing daylight saving, the first real proposal for changing the clocks came in 1895 from New Zealand entomologist George Hudson, who valued having more daylight so he could collect insects after work.
Daylight saving time
Today in History
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Don’t look down
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Big Bend National Parks birthday
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A delta in the Venetian Lagoon, Italy
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Surf s up—Down Under
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Can you see the family resemblance?
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The long and wiggling path
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International Day of the Tropics
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A wonderland in winter
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Paleontology meets art
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Antarctica Day
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Frankenstein Friday
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Siblings Day
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Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia
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Let s face it: It s World Emoji Day
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Christmas Tree Point Road and Twin Peaks, San Francisco
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Crescent-tail bigeye fish, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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Lights, camera, Sundance
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Summer huts in winter
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Do spirits haunt the Gardens of Versailles?
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World Sea Turtle Day
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Salzburg, Austria
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World Jellyfish Day
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Cheers! It’s National Wine Day
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Happy Fathers Day!
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A young jaguar on a riverbank, Pantanal, Brazil
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Dark skies over New Mexico
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A whale of a picture
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Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, England
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Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia
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