Although we may have grumbled through our clock adjustments back in March and lamented that hour we lost, we did so with the knowledge that we would get it back in November.
But as we periodically throw our whole schedules off with that one pesky floating hour, we may find ourselves wondering what the point of all this hassle is. Can't we just leave the clocks where they are all year?
And indeed, that's an increasingly popular position to have about Daylight Saving Time, but it helps to know how this all began.