Oklahoma won’t return to standard time until November 6. Most electronic clocks on your phone or other devices will take care of this for you, but you will have to do not forget to change all of your other clocks around the house. For instance, extending daylight saving time by four weeks would result in a 0.5 percent savings in electric usage – enough to power 100,000 homes for a year.
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Franklin, who presents himself in the letter as rising at noon, goes on to write that if people were to use the six hours of sunlight to do work, they’d require six hours fewer of candles.
Saturday morning, KXAN’s Erin Cargile sat down with Dr. George Rodgers, a cardiologist with the Seton Heart Institute to discuss the impact daylight saving time has on your health.
Those of you in Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas, go ahead and feel smug.
Florida Daylight Savings Time 2016 begins when days become longer as we head closer to the Spring Equinox. Not all of the affects of sleep deprivation are that extreme, but a study in the Journal of Applied Psychologynotes that workplace injuries rise on the Monday we spring forward, probably because workers are missing, on average, about 40 minutes of sleep.
It was the reason Congress used in enacting daylight saving time during World War I and again after the United States joined WWII, according to author David Prerau.
Why is there Daylight Savings Time?
So this Sunday, spring ahead and enjoy the extra daylight – working like Franklin might, or playing as you choose. When you have to set your clock forward an hour but do not adjust your schedule accordingly, it can feel like you are losing an hour.
MORE CAR ACCIDENTS: Academic literature supports and refutes the claim that DST reduces car wrecks.
James MacFarlane of the Toronto Sleep Institute told the Weather Network people should start imagining it’s Daylight Saving Time on Friday.
“The two days after the clocks roll forward there’s a spike in the number of heart attacks, strokes, and vascular events that occur”.
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If you start making some of these changes this weekend, doctors say you’ll probably have less problems come Monday morning.
