Daylight saving time ends Sunday in the United States

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[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

Daylight saving time starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November, with the time changes taking place at 2:00 a.m. local time.

Germany began observing DST on May 1, 1916 during WWI to conserve fuel. The Standard Time Act of March 19, 1918, began on March 31, 1918cinvthe U.S. The idea was unpopular and Congress abolished DST after the war. President Franklin Roosevelt re-instituted year-round DST, calling it "War Time", on February 9, 1942 that lasted until the last Sunday in September 1945.

Until 1966 there was no federal law on daylight saving time, so localities could choose to participate or not.

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 (P.L. 89-387). In 1967, the act mandated standard time within the established time zones and provided for advanced time: clocks would be advanced one hour beginning at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday in April and turned back one hour at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday in October. States were allowed to exempt themselves from DST as long as the entire state did so. If a state chose to observe DST, the time changes were required to begin and end on the established dates.

In 1972 the act was amended to allow states split between time zones to exempt either the entire state or that part of the state lying within a different time zone. The newly created Department of Transportation (DOT) was given power to enforce the law.

[Steve_Seattle]

"In before the cranks. I love the sun staying out so long in summer. It’s one of the best thing congress did in the last 60 years."

A few years ago I started hearing people criticize DST with a passion usually reserved for sports, politics, and religion. I didn't get it, and still don't. Not that I would mind that much if the government abandoned DST, but I just don't understand the anger it arouses in some people.

[SkyDancer]

Hopefully it will end, period.

[refermech]

jUST MORE GOV CRAP JACKING US AROUND!!

[Parmy]

Pick one or the other, I don’t care and just leave it there!

I agree in spades. This changing back and forth twice a year is a pain in the rump. All the clocks have to be changed. Sleep habits are interrupted. Furthermore, daylight is saved, the Sun always rises when it will and goes down when it will, depending on the seasons.

Pick one or the other and leave it alone.

[LouAvul]

I started hearing people criticize DST with a passion

I dislike having to stay up till 2 in the morning to change my clocks.

[Ken H]

The extra hour of sunlight helped agriculture become more productive, as well.

[Sacajaweau]

After going though it with 3 children....It just shouldn't be. It really screwed them up for a month on each end.

And it was started for a reason that didn't produce the intended result.

[markman46]

i think the criticism is based on DST starting in March and ending in Nov.. I know I don't like it this way

[Steve_Seattle]

"I dislike having to stay up till 2 in the morning to change my clocks."

Most people change them before they go to bed, or early the next day.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’m glad they have this. It reminds me to change the batteries in my smoke/carbon monoxide detector and that I don’t have to mess with my clock. I love Arizona.

[DJ Taylor]

In this country, our “Pay to Play” Federal Government doesn’t do anything unless lobbyists push it through Congress, and lobbyists don’t push anything through Congress unless someone is making a buck off it, so, I wonder, who’s making a buck off of Daylight Saving Time?

[stillfree?]

Who benefits? The power companies?

[bgill]

Split the difference at 30 minutes and end all this foolishness.

[qam1]

Retail stores. Longer hours of sunlight at night means more people after work will shop and shop longer.

The candy companies also pushed to have it extended past Halloween so kids will have more time to Trick or Treat.

[AFreeBird]

I wish it would end permanently.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

DST in this day and age is nuisance. I used to have to coordinate opening and closing times and coordinate shifts for contact center agents in Latin America and Australia - the phone system for Latin America was in Argentina but about half the agents using it were in the northern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere is going on to DST as the northern hemisphere is coming off and different countries switch on different dates. It was a royal pain.

A good thing about being in AZ is that we're always GMT-7 and we don't have to worry about it.

[SkyDancer]

There are states that don’t go on DST - and also Bush goes ahead and extends it another month.

[BluH2o]

Sunrise this AM here in western Colorado came @ 07:47.
Tomorrow Sunday it will be @ 06:48.
Winter equinox (12/21) sunrise will occur @ 07:30.
No problem with setting the clock back one hour from my perspective ...

[Clinging Bitterly]

Seriously, what business should it be of Congress to say what time it is, or particularly that it should swing back and forth at a particular time of year?

The whole thing never made sense to me, if it were to give us more daylight aligned with the "work" schedule, the time of year we ought to be moving our clocks forward is now. But regardless, the amount of daylight we have each 24 hour period isn't affected in the least by the arbitrary setting of the clock.

[capt. norm]

Got stuck in a rut last year. I was up late so at the appointed time (2:00 AM) I set my clocks back one hour...but then an hour later is was 2:00 AM again and I had to repeat the same procedure...this went on all night long.