Day Light Savings Time Fall 2011
With fall upon us, the days are getting shorter and cooler. It also means it's the time of year where many of us change our clocks. This change is called Day Light Savings Time.
Day Light Savings Time actually happens twice a year, once in the Spring (second Sunday in March), and once in the fall (first Sunday in November). In the Spring, we turn the clocks forward an hour, and in the fall, we turn the clocks backward an hour. The sayings "fall back" and "spring forward" are popular, catchy phrases to help us remember which way to turn the clocks according to season.
This fall, Day Light Savings Time will occur on November 6, 2011 at 2am. This change in the time will make the days seem shorter because the sunlight will diminish earlier at the end of the day. Most people have also noticed how much darker the morninngs have been in October as well.
Day Light Savings had originally been suggested by Benjamin Franklin, but it never came to fruition. In 1907, William Willett of England also wrote a similar document regarding preserving daylight, but Parliament did not implement time change in England until 1916.
For the United States, the country began adjusting clocks after World War I to save energy such as fuel for electric power. Day Light Savings had been repealed many times, before and after World War II for instance, but in 1966 The Uniform Time Act brought back Day Light Savings to the United States, but states, towns and cities were allowed to choose, by law, whether they wanted to to abide by it or not.
Day Light Savings has always been a contraversial subject. Not all countries take part in this tradition (such as Japan, China and India,) but about 70 countries around the globe do. The contraversy with Day Light Savings Time is with having to change the clocks, enduring change in sleep patterns, and just dealing with a general change in schedule. Not everyone can transition as easily, so it can be a sore subject amongst many.
For those whose towns, cities and/or states do so, don't forget to set your clocks back an hour on November 6th at 2am.
Spring Day Light Savings Time will be on March 11, 2012.
Day Light Savings Time actually happens twice a year, once in the Spring (second Sunday in March), and once in the fall (first Sunday in November). In the Spring, we turn the clocks forward an hour, and in the fall, we turn the clocks backward an hour. The sayings "fall back" and "spring forward" are popular, catchy phrases to help us remember which way to turn the clocks according to season.
This fall, Day Light Savings Time will occur on November 6, 2011 at 2am. This change in the time will make the days seem shorter because the sunlight will diminish earlier at the end of the day. Most people have also noticed how much darker the morninngs have been in October as well.
Day Light Savings had originally been suggested by Benjamin Franklin, but it never came to fruition. In 1907, William Willett of England also wrote a similar document regarding preserving daylight, but Parliament did not implement time change in England until 1916.
For the United States, the country began adjusting clocks after World War I to save energy such as fuel for electric power. Day Light Savings had been repealed many times, before and after World War II for instance, but in 1966 The Uniform Time Act brought back Day Light Savings to the United States, but states, towns and cities were allowed to choose, by law, whether they wanted to to abide by it or not.
Day Light Savings has always been a contraversial subject. Not all countries take part in this tradition (such as Japan, China and India,) but about 70 countries around the globe do. The contraversy with Day Light Savings Time is with having to change the clocks, enduring change in sleep patterns, and just dealing with a general change in schedule. Not everyone can transition as easily, so it can be a sore subject amongst many.
For those whose towns, cities and/or states do so, don't forget to set your clocks back an hour on November 6th at 2am.
Spring Day Light Savings Time will be on March 11, 2012.
Published by Julie Wimmer
Julie worked in tv/film for years. She now works part time instructing preschool gym and fitness classes at a local YMCA. She also has traveled around the US and has a good sense and knowlege of different st... View profile
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9 Comments
Post a CommentI am not looking forward to it! It always takes a while for me to break into the new rhythm. Found your site and became a fan today!
I like it light. Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you :) I was thinking it was time to mark my calendar for this :)
I am dreading it! Long cold, dark nights just doesn't do it for me. Summer is just so much more enjoyable. Maybe I should move back to Arizona where you just don't deal with it at all.
I like the mornings of falling back better than springing forward, but I it all evens out. I am not looking forward to those bleek, cold days where I leave for work in the dark and come home in the dark. Talk about depressing!
You know - I was just thinking about this the other day - as the darkness captures the morning light - and the nights are long. cheers ;)
Here in Israel we have DST but there's an argument regarding when it ends. The Ultra-Orthodox insist that we end it early so that the day of fast Yom Kippur will end earlier. When the lunar calendar has it fall later in the year, that's not too bad but it still costs us lots of money. When it falls in early September, you can imagine how much it affects our economy. The problem is, that this is an example of religious coercion where a small minority hurts the whole country, and the vast majority of the citizens - even the regular orthodox - don't mind (and many would prefer it) if the fast ends one hour later. We keep trying to fight it and we keep failing. Maybe next year!
Great article. We Arizonans don't use Daylight Savings Time. I guess they figure we get enough sun in the daytime that we don't need to save any. :-)
thanks for the reminder Julie!