Daylight Savings Time

[jericap Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close jericap]

Starts next weekend March 9th at 2am....OMG...I forgot it was being moved this year!

[jlwquilter Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jlwquilter]

So soon?? It seems like I just changed the clocks last week...

[kbletzer Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close kbletzer]

Yay...can't wait! The kids can play outside longer HEH HEH

K

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

Just in time for our Spring Break Trip with Grandkids

[Bill4728 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Bill4728]

Not to say I didn't trust you but I thought the new law was going to increase DST by 1 week at each end. But it increased DST in the spring by 3 weeks.

Mar 9th, WOW, that early!

[dougp26364 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dougp26364]

Always works out that when we lose an hour by spinging forward we're on vacation and when we fall back we're working. It makes a difference when you work nights. Somehow I'm going to have to reverse this situation next year.

[1950bing Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close 1950bing]

It helps me a lot. Mowing used to be a time problem until the time changed.

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

Yippee!!!!

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

I am not certain when it comes in here, but I know in the Fall, it was a different day from the end of DST in the US. But at least my ten day trip back to the states in mid-March will fall during DST.

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

Don't you just love it

Starting in 2007, daylight time begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. On the second Sunday in March, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time. On the first Sunday in November, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time. These dates were established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. no. 109-58, 119 Stat 594 (2005).

Not all places in the U.S. observe daylight time. In particular, Hawaii and most of Arizona do not use it. Indiana adopted its use beginning in 2006.

In 2006, daylight time begins on April 2 and ends on October 29.
In 2007, daylight time begins on March 11 and ends on November 4. [New law goes into effect.]
In 2008, daylight time begins on March 9 and ends on November 2.
In 2009, daylight time begins on March 8 and ends on November 1.
Many other countries observe some form of "summer time", but they do not necessarily change their clocks on the same dates as the U.S.

Daylight time and time zones in the U.S. are defined in the U.S. Code, Title 15, Chapter 6, Subchapter IX - Standard Time.

History of Daylight Time in the U.S.
Although standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads in 1883, it was not established in U.S. law until the Act of March 19, 1918, sometimes called the Standard Time Act. The act also established daylight saving time, a contentious idea then. Daylight saving time was repealed in 1919, but standard time in time zones remained in law. Daylight time became a local matter. It was re-established nationally early in World War II, and was continuously observed from 9 February 1942 to 30 September 1945. After the war its use varied among states and localities. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 provided standardization in the dates of beginning and end of daylight time in the U.S. but allowed for local exemptions from its observance. The act provided that daylight time begin on the last Sunday in April and end on the last Sunday in October, with the changeover to occur at 2 a.m. local time.

During the "energy crisis" years, Congress enacted earlier starting dates for daylight time. In 1974, daylight time began on 6 January and in 1975 it began on 23 February. After those two years the starting date reverted back to the last Sunday in April. In 1986, a law was passed that shifted the starting date of daylight time to the first Sunday in April, beginning in 1987. The ending date of daylight time was not subject to such changes, and remained the last Sunday in October. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed both the starting and ending dates. Beginning in 2007, daylight time starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.

For a very readable account of the history of standard and daylight time in the U.S., see

Ian R. Bartky and Elizabeth Harrison: "Standard and Daylight-saving Time", Scientific American, May 1979 (Vol. 240, No. 5), pp. 46-53.

[jericap Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close jericap]

Thanks for the history on it...I thought at one time it was the last week in April....

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

Whew !

Sunday morning when we rose from bed at home in far western Kentucky (Murray, CDT) Rita and I rolled our watches ahead one hour. We drove to the state Capital (Frankfort, EDT) we put on our Frankfort watches, which were one hour ahead of central time, then turned them up another hour.
Thus, last Sunday we lost two hours of time, one of which we will get back Friday when we head home.

[kbletzer Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close kbletzer]

OK I changed my mind!
I am feeling pretty tired with the loss of the hour sleep. I know I'll catch up but work has been a drag, my son broke his little thumb fri and has to wear a cast for 5 weeks, ( We have the Great Wolf Lodge Trip coming up on 3/26)the hamster broke out of it's cage and I had to track it down in the middle of the night, my daughter forgot her math book and had a huge test today (teaching her responsibility), preparing my home to put it on the market and I am just wiped.
OK ....I'm done whining!

K

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

And...

...the dog didn't even eat your homework?!?

OK I changed my mind!
I am feeling pretty tired with the loss of the hour sleep. I know I'll catch up but work has been a drag, my son broke his little thumb fri and has to wear a cast for 5 weeks, ( We have the Great Wolf Lodge Trip coming up on 3/26)the hamster broke out of it's cage and I had to track it down in the middle of the night, my daughter forgot her math book and had a huge test today (teaching her responsibility), preparing my home to put it on the market and I am just wiped.
OK ....I'm done whining!

K

[Hoc Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Hoc]

As an insomniac, DST really sucks for me. It usually takes me a month or more in the spring to finally start getting to sleep before midnight again. Last night, I could not finally drift off until 4 am. Fall is easier, since I just go to sleep at the same time and wake up an hour earlier.