Turn your clocks forward Sunday; 5 questions answered about Daylight Saving Time

“‘If you want to cut off 25 per cent of the productiveness of the American farmer, just keep this law on the books, ‘ Prerau quotes one agricultural lobby as arguing during an effort to repeal daylight saving time in 1919”, the network said.

The daylight saving time discussion – the annual annoyance or optimism that comes with moving clocks one hour forward at 2 a.m. – has raged for decades in the USA, spawning unusual alliances between powerful lobbies in favor of and against tampering with Father Time.

If the late sunlight isn’t your thing, the clocks turn back at 2 a.m. on November 5. In the United States, Daylight Saving Time was first established in 1918. Arizona and Hawaii are the only states that do not observe daylight saving time.

Daylight saving time adjusts the hours people are at work, school and play – affording more hours of daylight during the warmer part of the year.

It’s time change day – the day twice a year when we spring ahead (today) or fall back (November), changing our clocks to align with daylight with an eye toward saving money on our electrical bills and overall efficiency.

The time shifts – first suggested by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 – began during World War I in Germany, supposedly to save energy during a wartime coal shortage.

The suffering of the spring time change begins with the loss of an hour of sleep.

The change means an hour extra of daylight during the early evening.

Downing also said in the interview that the main body that has kept daylight saving time alive and well during periods of heavy conversation in support of the contrary is the retail lobby.

The bad news for those who like light: a few weeks after standard time returns in the fall, sunset will be at 4:57 p.m. from December 3 through December 13.

Officials for years have used the change in time to remind people to change batteries in smoke detectors and other emergency devices.

Arizona – with the exception of the Navajo Nation – doesn’t mess with its clocks because of the heat.

Daylight Saving Time starts in 2017 on Sunday, March 12. OK, I may be harboring on this point a bit too much but this was legitimately his first piece of advice. The measure received push back on sun lovers and businesses such as golf course owners and landscapers that relied on the extra hour of sunlight. The California Energy Commission published a report, in which it states that the extension of daylight saving time in March 2007 had little or no effect on energy consumption in California.