Clocks go back. What is Daylight Saving Time and why do we do it?

In Finland and elsewhere in Europe clocks are once again being set back one hour on Sunday at 4 am Finnish time as daylight savings time comes to an end. So-called summer time has been used to reap the benefits of 

Daylight saving time (DST) comes to an end at a strategic time this year. You can set your clock to "fall back" before you go to sleep on Saturday, Oct. 31, but the time when Daylight Saving ends won't officially happen until early the following

In 1907, a man called William Willett introduced the idea of British Summer Time, also known as Daylight Saving Time in order to prevent people from wasting valuable hours of light during summer mornings. William Willett laid out a serious proposition

If you are looking forward to getting an extra hour of sleep when Daylight Saving Time ends, you will have to wait until after Halloween to turn your clocks.

This autumn, daylight saving time has us "falling back" — or gaining an hour of sleep — during the wee hours of Sunday, November 1. While that may sound like the perfect way to recover from a weekend of Halloween fetes (or candy comas), it can be