Many countries will be observing Daylight Saving Time (DST) this Sunday, November 6th, whereby we set our clocks to “fall back” one hour to standard time (ST). The bi-annual adventure in altered timekeeping—we will “spring forward” again one hour on March 12, 2017—has produced some entertaining and exasperating situations over the past century.
Here are some strange-but-true facts you might not know about DST.
To find out which countries around the world participate in DST, click here.