ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

day light savings

Daylight savings is a way to make sure the daylight hours during the summer months are longer. To do this, we set our clocks ahead one hour in the spring (so it will get light an hour earlier) and set them back one hour in the fall (so it will get dark an hour earlier). This way we have more hours of daylight in the summer to do things like play outside and have fun in the sun.