Who Falls Back?

2012                                                                                         TimeZoneBoy

As I posted at this time last year, not everyone loses an hour in the spring and gains it back in the fall. In general, it is the Western countries that observe this time change, but not all on the same day. In fact, in places like the EU, Mexico, and Morocco, citizens get to sleep in that extra hour on the last Sunday of October. Here in the U.S., it happens one week later. It was a New Zealander, entomologist George Vernon Hudson, who came up with the idea, in 1895, though some credit (or should I say "blame"?!) English builder William Willett, who suggested it in a publication in 1905. However it began, the practice has been questioned every year ever since, 2014 being no exception: http://online.wsj.com/articles/studies-cast-doubt-on-value-of-daylight-saving-time-1414775919