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
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Polar bears
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International Lighthouse Weekend
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World Giraffe Day
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Oh, to sleep under the northern lights
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March of the flowers
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Bridge over the River Tara
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National Audubon Society s Christmas Bird Count
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Native American Heritage Month
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There once was a lighthouse from...
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Kelimutu, Flores, Indonesia
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Hollywood s big night
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Mont-Saint-Michel
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World Population Day
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Horsetail Fall, Yosemite National Park, California
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One for the books
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Edinburgh festivals
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El Valle de la Luna, Chile
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Indigenous living
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To Roswell, and beyond!
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Giving Tuesday
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Happy Mother s Day!
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Monarch butterflies, Pismo Beach, California
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The Hermitage of Santa Justa
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Lucian Blaga National Theater, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Wake up, it s Darwin Day
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1934 Labor Day parade, Gastonia, North Carolina
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Morocco in bloom
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Wild turkeys in repose
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Night of the ‘Cold Moon’
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Guilin and Lijiang River National Park, China