Daylight Savings Time!?!

For many struggling with American English, the mnemonic “spring forward, fall back” is more a quirky linguistic truism, rather than a useful directive. Daylight Savings Time is a foreign concept to many new to American shores. When I came to the States at the ripe age of not-yet-eight, I remember the huge hubbub of my first ‘fall back’…everyone in the nation was instructed to turn their clocks back on a cool fall night. Having already traveled to about a dozen different countries, and had never experienced this unanimous temporal manip…