As air conditioning has become more widespread, however, more recent studies have found that cost savings on lighting are more than offset by greater cooling expenses. Some also argue that increased recreational activity during daylight saving results in greater gasoline consumption. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you.
Live TV. This Day In History. The idea of an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day is what most of us need after the chilly shorter days of December, January, and February.
Benjamin Franklin gets some credit for the idea of daylight saving time, though his recommendation was really a joke. In a letter to the editor of the Journal of Paris , Franklin jokingly recommended the people get out of bed earlier in the morning to minimize the use of candles and lamp oil.
In , George Hudson, an entomologist from New Zealand, came up with the modern concept of daylight saving time. He proposed a two-hour time shift so he'd have more after-work hours of sunshine to go bug hunting in the summer. Hudson suggested moving clocks ahead two hours in October and then a two-hour shift back in March. In , William Willett, a British builder, suggested moving clocks ahead 20 minutes every Sunday in April and then setting them back every Sunday in September.
Read More. There's an age-old myth that Daylight Saving was a practice adopted to give farmers extra time in the sun to work out in the field. But, that's not really why dozens of countries follow it. For eight months out of the year, the US and dozens of other countries follow DST, and for the remaining four months, revert back to standard time in order to take full advantage of the sunlight.
On the second Sunday of March at 2 a. Then, on the first Sunday of November at 2 a. A good way to remember it? The time shifts match the seasons: Clocks "spring" forward an hour in March and "fall" back in November.
In the summer months, the sun is out for longer periods of time, so you can rely on daylight to avoid switching lights on. Roosevelt re-instituted daylight saving during World War II. This time, more states continued using daylight saving after the conflict ended, but for decades there was little consistency with regard to its schedule.
Finally, in , Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which standardized daylight saving across the country and established its start and end times in April and October later changed to March and November in Today, daylight saving time is used in dozens of countries across the globe, but it remains a controversial practice.
Most studies show that its energy savings are only negligible, and some have even found that costs are higher, since people in hot climates are more apt to use air conditioners in the daytime. Meanwhile, Hawaii and Arizona have opted out of daylight saving altogether and remain on standard time year round.
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