It’s time to fall back. However, any State can opt out of Daylight Saving Time by passing a State law. That all changed by 2007. Another study conducted by the University of California-Santa Barbara in 2008 suggested that daylight saving time could even increase energy consumption slightly. You might have woken up by your alarm clock on time, only to be fooled by the kitchen stove or microwave clock telling you you’ve got an extra hour to laze around! The confusion however started in 2005.
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Congress in 1966 passed the Uniform Time Act, which, according to snopes.com, specified that daylight saving time begin on the last Sunday of April and end the last Sunday of October. Tally it all up, and the three-week daylight saving time extension in the spring of 2007 saved the country $246 million, according to Doleac and Sanders.
“It’s actually a unsafe time on BC roads, in the sense that we see the most amount of crashes in November and in December, and that amounts to about 24,000 to 25,000 every month”. Finally, if you are wondering, the correct term is “Daylight Saving” even though a few say “Daylight Savings”.
Indiana was once like Arizona, but in 2005 the state joined most of the rest of the US in observing daylight saving time. It is also not observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
After years in the traffic division attending accidents involving pedestrians and vehicles, Rutherford says this time of year is challenging. On the other hand, why can’t we rid ourselves of standard time-which, by the way, only encompasses about four months of the year at this point-and enjoy longer evenings year round? In the summer, daylight saving time makes the sun set an hour later, reducing electricity uses for lighting and appliances in the evening, as we can stay outside later, and bedtime comes closer to sunset.
Daylight Saving Time was introduced to save resources.
“It’s time for a change”. If you don’t loathe this particular day of the year, I’m not sure we could ever be friends, because it means we probably won’t relate about anything.
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“General consensus is that really most of those things that were used as arguments for having daylight saving time in the past are really not applicable nowadays”, he said.
