I often wonder the extent to which his proverbs are really just sarcastic jokes, and “time is money” is one such case.

Franklin, the man who wrote “Early to bed; early to rise . . .” was notorious for sleeping in. In fact, legend has it that he came up with the idea for daylight savings time when his servant accidently did not shutter his east-facing window, thereby allowing the sun to wake him up long before his accustomed time. He realized all the daylight he missed by sleeping in, and mused that a shift of the clock would shift the daylight and still allow him to sleep in.

So when we change our clocks this weekend, and sleepily adjust to our “losing” an hour of sleep because changing a clock is easier than changing our multiple biological rhythms, we can thank Ben.