Set Your Clocks Back

The only part of Arizona where clocks change is on the Navajo Nation, which spans three states and where the tribe has chose to participate in the yearly ritual. Falling back an hour in the fall is falling in line when you don’t have to.

So set your clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, but to be on the safe side, you may want to do so before going to bed Saturday. Research indicates traffic accidents increase immediately after a time change – a 2005 University of British Columbia study showed an increase of seven per cent in Canadian traffic collision rates on the Monday after the spring time change. “How well and how fast someone can compensate for that depends to a large extent on their personal health”. “We just thought we would start it now and when the spring time change comes that’s the really bad one we would even garner more support”, Dieno said. He said the idea of utilizing daylight was in many ways meant to provide more time to work in the fields. “Any time shifts … are expected to affect a bit the patterns of our sleep”.

Daylight saving time returns at 2 a.m. on March 13. Personally, I’m hoping it was Hudson; I’d hate to have to associate Franklin with such a awful idea.

The United States and Canada didn’t even have time zones until 1883, according to the naval observatory.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average USA residential utility customer consumed 10,932 kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2014, an average of 911 kWh per month. It was wasted effort, because on Sunday, it will again be out of sync as the daylight-time season ends. According to a 2008 Dept. of Energy study, USA electricity use was decreased by 0.5% for each day of the extended daylight saving time, resulting in a savings of 0.03% for the year as a whole, King-TV reports.

Clocks get turned back an hour this weekend, but not everyone will be taking advantage of it to get more sleep. Hawaii does not now observe DST nor does most areas of Arizona. If irrigation systems are on timers, the batteries for those also should be changed, county officials stated. Daylight Savings Time, also known in a few countries as “Summer Time”, is largely an American custom, though a few other countries such as England (UK), and Germany observe it as well.

“The Chamber understood that if you give workers more sunlight at the end of the day they’ll stop and shop on their way home”, said Downing in a radio interview. These savings come in the summer months of DST, not the Standard Time months we are about to enter.

The time change actually is rooted in an agricultural society, Earnest said.

If turning the clocks either direction is a source of undue insomnia and stress, one might argue that we simply abolish daylight saving time.