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There are some things in life that we take for granted: such as the fact that the sun will rise from the East and set in the West. Another one of those facts, is that years have 365 days, subdivided into twelve uneven months that have either 30 or 31 days. Except from February, which…

In the days before smartphones were invented, travelling between different time zones was bit of a nuisance; you had to manually turn your clock forwards or backwards to be in sync with the region specific time zones. But what are time zones and why do they complicate our life that much? First of all, if…

At one point or another in your life, chances are that you might have experienced the frustration of having to advance your clock by one hour during March, subsequently losing an hour of sleep. It is something that we learned to cope with even as children. But let’s just take a moment here and ask:…

DST is a practice that may have been implemented in almost every corner of the world in the last 100 years, but is in fact quite an old idea, that was used as a practical way of organizing farming. In its modern form, it was first introduced by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 and was promptly…