The official name for the reason you “spring ahead” and turn your clock forward is Daylight Saving Time, but a great number of people call it Daylight Savings Time, or simply Daylight Savings.
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Starting Sunday, one hour of daylight is switched from morning to evening. The new time stays in effect all summer, after which we go back to Standard Time on Sunday, Nov. 6.
Meanwhile, as more and more of our devices automatically adjust to the time change, there’s one manual task to consider: Fire departments across the country are asking residents to check the batteries in their smoke alarms tonight. Now, here’s what you need to know about daylight savings time history and health tips. The overall rate for stroke was 8% higher and heart attacks 10% higher in the days following daylight saving time, CNN reports.
HollywoodLifers, do you wish your state would stop observing daylight saving time? Since it was first adopted in the USA during World War I, it has been a moving target, eliminated, then reinstated in fits and starts until 1966, when it was “standardized” nationally, with a couple of exceptions. And in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, there is no daylight saving time because their locations are close to the equator and warm climates provide little change in sunlight throughout the year. If farmers didn’t invent daylight saving time, who did?
The practice is also credited with increasing driving safety and reducing the number of auto accidents, David Prerau, the author of Seize the Daylight, told the New York Times.
While we may only be losing an hour of sleep Saturday night, it may take a while for many of us to get used to the new sleep schedule.
It wasn’t until 1918 that idea of springing forward and falling back came to the United States.
If a Bay Area assemblyman’s bill passes, however, daylight saving tim and its annual spring-forward, fall-back ritual could become a thing of the past in California. Since the weather was quiet this morning, even there the discussion centered around all of us early risers adjusting to the time change and wondering why we still do this.
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Some rogue elements will argue for a perpetual DST – after all, more people are awake and active at 7PM than 7AM. The Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona changes its clocks with the rest of the continental U.S. As one NWS meteorologist pointed out, the time change generated a more lively discussion than the weather usually does.
