It’s the back and forth that happens every year, twice a year. The changing of the clocks. Daylight Saving Time is here. Hey, did you notice it’s not “savings”!??!
It’s spring forward time Sunday, March 11th. Get ready to lose that hour of sleep and gain an hour of sunshine at the end of the day!
This week Florida's Senate passed a bill to keep Daylight Saving Time (DST) year round. They join 2 other states, Hawaii and Arizona.
HISTORY: Credit — or blame — for the biannual shift goes back to Benjamin Franklin, who published An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light in a 1784 journal after he noticed that people burned candles at night but slept past dawn.
But he never saw his plan put into action. The U.S. first implemented daylight saving during World War I as a way to conserve fuel with the Standard Time Act of 1918, also known as the Calder Act.
In World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented a year-round Daylight Saving Time that was commonly known as "War Time." In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act into law.
Under the act, states and territories can opt out of daylight saving. It isn't observed in Arizona (except the Navajo Nation), Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Daylight Saving is observed in approximately 70 countries, including most of those in North America and Europe.