- Less than 40 percent of the world uses the Daylight Saving Time system
- Most African and Asian countries, such as India and China, have decided to opt out of the system altogether
- More than a century before it was adopted by any major country, Benjamin Franklin suggested the idea of daylight saving time in a satirical essay
- Candy lobbyists worked for decades to have the end of DST moved from Oct 30th (night before Halloween) before it was finally moved to November 4th in 2007
- Namibia is the only country in Africa to use DST, unless you stay at the Anjajavy resort in Madagascar, which created its own time zone so the sun could rise later and set earlier
- Properly called “daylight saving time”, it is commonly referred to as “”daylight savings time”” in the U.S. and “summer time” in many other countries
- An etymologist first proposed the idea of turning clocks ahead in the summer in New Zealand in 1895, but it was regarded as complicated and pointless
