Question:
Why is Daylight Savings Time happening so early this year?
V
2007-03-08 08:16:55 UTC
The time change to Daylight Savings Time shouldn't be happening until April, why is it changing on March 11th?
Eight answers:
Scotch Tape
2007-03-08 10:17:42 UTC
Congress changed Daylight Savings. An amendment was added to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (H.R. 6) to extend Daylight Savings Time by 4 weeks (3 weeks earlier in March and going 1 week later). This Amendment was added as an effort to save energy in the US by adding more daylight hours to the work day hoping that businesses and individuals will need less heat/lighting/etc. during that time. The Amendment was also added to decrease the number of car accidents due to poor visibility and "night blindness." Though this year the change will likely be a pain in the butt and cause problems with electronic devices, the hope is that in the long run it will save energy. H.R. 6 was signed into law in August 2005 and most of its provisions were implemented at the beginning of 2007.
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2016-12-05 15:07:49 UTC
It is smart astronomically, to boot to all the different causes human beings have given. for see you later as i visit save in ideas, sunlight hours Saving Time has lasted until eventually the top of October. very few human beings have any issue with that. the following in lengthy island, damage of day in overdue October occurs about 7:20 a.m. EDT. it truly is no longer too overdue for most folk. (It occurs later for those added west of their time zone, as in Michigan and Indiana, besides the undeniable fact that the established continues to be an identical. They already have their overdue sunrises besides.) This Sunday, March eleventh, it may take position at 6:14 a.m. if we did not turn the clocks ahead. Even going to sunlight Saving Time, damage of day will be 7:14, nonetheless before than human beings are already used to in October. in truth, i imagine Congress must have set the date because the perfect Sunday of February. If we had grew to develop into our clocks ahead on February twenty fifth, solar-up could be at 7:36 a.m., no longer all that dramatically later. to boot to the arguments of potential saving, decreased crime and the others that writers have pointed to, enable me upload yet another: well being. the more suitable hour of sunlight hours will supply the threat for individuals to get out and walk after supper. and also psychological well being. right this moment of year, we are stuck in an Arctic grip and maximum easily everyone looks yearning for the top to wintry climate. the starting up of sunlight hours Saving Time can help you relieve the wintry climate blues for most, providing wish that spring has no longer forgotten us!
TheOnlyBeldin
2007-03-09 06:10:27 UTC
Because someone in Washington finally did something right for a change.
2007-03-08 08:20:07 UTC
Something to do with saving energy costs, I still don't know how, I wish the clock would stay the same !
2007-03-08 08:19:50 UTC
They changed the law and made it early from now on.
♥RachelRocks123♥
2007-03-08 08:20:11 UTC
because the govenor or somebody like that wants to save eletrictiy and energy.
MaryJane
2007-03-08 08:28:49 UTC
Because they are evil.
2007-03-08 08:20:02 UTC
global warming maybe???


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