US inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin first proposed the concept of DST in 1784, but modern Daylight Saving Time was first suggested in 1895. At that time, George Vernon Hudson, an entomologist from New Zealand, presented a proposal for a 2-hour daylight saving shift.

Find out more about Daylight Savings Time at https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/

And don’t forget, if you use Daylight Savings Time where you live, set your clocks ahead 1 hour before you go to bed on Saturday, March 12, 2021.