The Bush Wealth Advantage: The emotional impact of daylight savings time

Daylight can impact decision-making in ways investors don’t realize. Daylight Savings Time (DST) is the practice of moving clocks forward by one hour during the warmer months to extend evening daylight and then shifting them back again as the days shorten. The concept was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, as a way to make better use of daylight hours and conserve energy. However, the modern idea of DST did not take hold until World War I, when several countries, including Germany