Benjamin Franklin is best remembered as one ... he definitely lived up to it. Each day, Franklin woke up early at 5 a.m. and went to bed at 10 p.m, for a total of seven hours of sleep each night.

The extra hour of sunshine comes with a spike in heart attacks, auto accidents and workplace injuries the day after the change. And try getting your school kid out the door earlier.

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...