Benjamin Franklin

Discover America's most inspirational historical mentors from New York State including Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass.

Set your clocks ahead when you go to bed on Saturday and change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. So what's behind the idea of Daylight Saving Time and does it work?

Forget what you've heard about daylight-saving time being all about helping farmers way back when. That might have had its part, but it's not the whole story.