Daylight Saving Time

Arizona (except some Indian Reservations), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have chosen not to observe Daylight Saving Time.

You don't do a thing!! My husband replaced the batteries on our the other night, and after a few minutes (I assume it got a radio signal update) it reset itself! Pretty cool... You are wrong!!!!! I asked for a manual reset, not waiting for the clock to maybe catch up.

Though you would expect twelve hours of day and twelve hours of night at the Equator, that is not the case. Because of atmospheric refraction and the size of the Sun, it actually exceeds 12 hours by about 7 minutes each day.

Everywhere north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle has at least one day per year without a sunset and at least one day per year without a sunrise. The closer you get to the poles the longer the periods of constant daylight and constant darkness. Directly at the geographic poles there is one sunrise per year and one sunset per year.

It started as a method to match the clock with the sunlight, providing more daylight time during normal working hours. This reduced the need for electricity and reduced energy consumption.

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Because they hate change of course..

Daylight saving time was first observed in Michigan in 1918 as part of a nation-wide effort during World War I to conserve energy. Though it was repealed after the war, it was reinstated during World War II and has been in effect intermittently since then.

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You move them forward an hour to change from Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time in the Spring. You move them back an hour to go from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time in the fall. The saying to remember this by is "Spring forward. Fall back"

Being closer to the equator means a smaller difference in length of days between summer and winter. In places farther from the equator winter means shorter days. Daylight savings pushes the sunrise to a time where people must be up to work. In tropical climates the day doesn't get shorter, so noone needs to save its light!

Colorado (Mountain Time) is 2 hours behind EST, if that helps.

From 1987 through 2006, Daylight Saving Time in the US began on the 1st Sunday of April and ended on the last Sunday of October.

It's a 3-hour time difference, so 1:00pm (13:00) in the east coast would be 10:00am (10:00) in the west coast/pacific time zone.

Daylight Saving Time (United States) began Sunday, March 11, 2012, 2:00am, and ends Sunday, November 4, 2012, 2:00am.Except Arizona and Hawaii. Move your clocks ahead 1 hour in spring and back 1 hour in fall ("Spring forward, fall back") .

The next daylight saving time in the United States will start on Sunday, March 14, 2021, when clocks will be set forward by one hour.

The clocks do not change in October. It is the first Sunday in November. Also they get set back in the fall. The association of 'spring forward, fall back' is the easy reminder to keep things straight. Daylight Saving Time Fall 2009 is November 1, at 2:00 a.m.

New Zealand gets sunlight first in the world when reckoning from the standard, defined location of the International Date Line. _____________ There is some controversy over this, but the island nation of Kiribati (pronounced roughly ka-REE-bas) modified the International Date Line so that all of Kiribati falls to the west of the line. This is a very large diversion of the line, and many saw this as a rather disingenuous attempt to gain commercial advantage. As a result of this line shift, Caroline Island, the eastern-most part of Kiribati at the same longitude as Anchorage Alaska (150 degrees West), "became" the "first" place on earth to get the light of January 1 2000, considered (erroneously) by many to be the first day of the new milennium. There is no international law governing the actual location of the date line, and nations affected by it are free to define it so that all of its territory is on one side or the other. Kiribati could as easily have defined itself as being to the east of the line, and it would have been a smaller and more generally acceptable shift.

Daylight savings time was originally suggested by Benjamin Franklin in the early 1800's. Daylight savings time was later invented in 1908. It was originally designed in order to save electricity because people would use more electricity as the daylight time was shorter.

The daylight hours are shortest during the winter solstice, which usually occurs around December 21st in the Northern Hemisphere and June 21st in the Southern Hemisphere. At this time, the sun is at its lowest point in the sky, resulting in the shortest duration of daylight.

yes, except Russia, and Ukraine plans to do away with it in 2013

Canada, except for the province of Saskatchewan, turns the clock back one hour on the night/morning between October 31 and November 1st. Basically, turn the clock back after you go to bed on Oct. 31, or as soon as you wake up Nov. 1.

Officially, on Nov. 1, you turn the clock back at 2:00 AM to read 1:00 AM.

Daylight savings time was invented for the main fact that when it was invented, farming was the main occupation in the US. It allowed school kids and farmers to have more daylight to work the crops.

Always the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October, and remember the saying "spring forward and fall back".