"When do we change our clocks"
Daylight Savings Time is the mark of "Summer Time." Beginning in 2007, most of the United States began Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March (but not in Arizona or Hawaii) and reverts to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday in November.
Prior to 2007, daylight time in the United States began on the first Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October. These dates were recently modified with the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
- The Department of Transportation is in charge of time zones in the United States. Under the US Uniform Time Act of 1966.
- The concept of Daylight Saving Time was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin as an American delegate in Paris. For your research see Excerpts and commentary on Benjamin Franklin and Daylight Saving Time from webexhibits.org.
- Daylight Saving Time was first seriously proposed in London in 1907 by William Willett in the pamphlet, "Waste of Daylight."
- In 1905, Germany was the first nation to adopt daylight time during the First World War.
- By observing Daylight Saving Time we create an extra hour of daylight in the evening therefore save on electricity.
- Studies from the 1970s by the U.S. Department of Transportation have shown that we reduce the entire country's usage of electricity by about 1% each day with Daylight Saving Time.
