So tonight when we go to bed, we've got to set our clocks back one hour.  An adjustment we make twice a year to "save daylight."  This phrase has always baffled me.  Daylight is not saved, it's just moved -- from the beginning of the day to the middle of the day.  The merchants who came up with this time-dance scheme felt the daylight was more valuable during "leisure hours" (translation: hours from which you can buy things). Read next feature >