It’s time to move on Ben! Franklin had so many great ideas. He put many of them to work. He was considered a scientist who was ahead of his time. Speaking of which, time. That created his worst idea.

Well, maybe not the worst. It made sense at the TIME. Ben’s father was a candle maker. Candles were a lot of work, they were relatively epensive, and they were needed everywhere. Ben knew early in his life that he didn’t want to follow in his father’s footsteps and be a candle maker. But he did think about candles.

Franklin came up with an unusual thought. He promoted it everywhere. It caught on. But remember, that was when candles were a “necessity,” not a romantic afterthought.

Ben proposed that candles could be saved by extending the evening hours when they were most used. With daylight savings time, candles would be used less often. People would go to their beds earlier, burn fewer candles, and save money. While in the summer months, daylight would help with the days being longer.

We don’t even think about that much at all. Most of us wonder why daylight savings time would be needed. The confusion, the mistakes, the changing of clocks, watches, and other timepieces require an inordinate amount of time. And who remembers ahead of time. The question to ask is “why do we put our businesses, States, cities, families, and homemakers through such shenanigans as changing the clocks to “Spring forward and fall Back?” I don’t think anyone can come up with a good reason to keep the program that is not longer needed.

Just turn on the switch—the lights are on. The TIME has passed. We should thank Ben for his grand idea—but remind ourselves that it has run its course. Look at Arizona. The only State other than Hawaii that has done away with Daylight Savings Time. The problem that we have is remembering what happens with the clocks in all the other states.