Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time is when we shift our clocks so that more people are awake and able to take advantage of an extra hour of daylight. In the wintertime, right now in the Northern Hemisphere where you are, the part of the Earth that you live on is tilted further away from the sun. And since the sun is lower in the sky, its light is less strong and it's colder. But if a day is 24 hours, whether it's summertime or wintertime, it's not that the days are actually shorter. It's just that there are fewer hours of daylight and more hours of darkness.