![]() ![]() When do we have to fiddle with our clocks again?ĭaylight-saving time ends on Nov. So the timing worked, and has remained in place. was a dead zone, so to speak - no trains left New York at that hour, according to Time magazine. time zone - it doesn’t occur all at once across the country.) But the specific reason has to do with railroad schedules: When daylight-saving time was introduced more than a century ago, there was concern it would wreak havoc with train timetables. change is scheduled at that hour in each respective U.S. “Let’s just lock the clock once and for all and put all this stupidity behind us.” Why does the change happen on Sunday at 2 a.m.?Ĭertainly, there’s less interruption in the middle of a weekend night. “Switching in and out of daylight-saving time is outdated,” Rubio recently said. senator from Florida, is one of the key forces behind the discussion. According to a recent Wall Street Journal story, 28 states “are weighing bills regarding the time changes.” And there’s talk on the national level of doing away with the twice-a-year changing of the clocks. Are other states rethinking the practice? After all, who needs another hour of sun when it’s already so hot?Īs for Hawaii, the World Population Review website puts the reasoning thusly: Due to the state’s location, “there are fewer variations between winter and summer daylight hours, so it makes sense to not have” daylight-saving time. ![]() ![]() In Arizona’s case, the scorching heat is largely to blame, according to Arizona State University history professor Calvin Schemerhorn. States can still choose to exempt themselves - and Arizona and Hawaii are the two that don’t follow daylight-saving time. So the whole country is on board with all this resetting of the clocks?Īgain, not quite. The confusion finally ended in 1966, with the Uniform Time Act, which firmly established daylight-saving time as a national practice. It returned on a national level from 1942 to 1945, tied to World War II, after which it was again up to individual locales to decide whether they wanted to spring forward and fall back each year. discontinued daylight-saving time by 1919 - at least on a national scale, although some states and municipalities carried on with the practice. By 1916, it started to spread to Europe, with the thought being it would save on energy - an effort very much connected to World War I. In 1908, when a couple of Canadian towns adopted daylight-saving time. So he wrote a paper proposing the time shift and presented it in 1895.Įventually, the idea took hold. Hudson liked collecting bugs, and more daylight meant more, well, bugs. But the idea of daylight-saving was more or less formalized by a New Zealand entomologist - one George Vernon Hudson (1867-1946) - if you can imagine. He also saw it in economic terms: “An immense sum” could be saved, he said, “by the economy of using sunshine instead of candles.”įranklin was being a bit playful. and they were not waking up until much later. When he lived in Paris, Franklin did observe that people were wasting good daylight when the sun was rising at 6 a.m. Some say that Benjamin Franklin, that wisest of Founding Fathers, invented daylight-saving time, although that’s not exactly true. ![]() Who came up with this daylight-saving idea in the first place (and what were they thinking)? So, why do we do it? And is there a case to be made for not doing it? Read on to learn more. ![]()
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