Millions of Americans await the national clock adjustment, which will take effect on Sunday, November 6, 2022, and last until Sunday, March 13, 2023. In preparation for the time shift, Fox News Digital looked at the history of daylight saving time in the US DAYTIME IS ENDING: ARE THERE HEALTH RISKS? Here are 10 little-known facts about daylight saving time. Daylight saving time during the fall is when millions turn back the clock. (iStock) 3rd month, 11th month – DST occurs twice each year, once in March (spring) and once in November (fall). DST adds one hour, so “there’s one less hour in the day,” while DST subtracts one hour, so “there’s one extra hour in the day,” according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. National Institute of Standards and Technology. 2nd Sunday at 2 o’clock – The two DST dates change each year because they apply on the second Sunday in March and the second Sunday in November. Daylight saving time occurs at 2 a.m. each time, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. For DST, clocks jump forward to 3 AM. once it reaches 2am local time, which overrides the 2 A.M. in total. Millions of Americans check their watches and clocks every time daylight saving time occurs. (iStock) BAD TICKER: IS TIME CAUSING ‘BIOLOGICAL SHOCK’ IN YOUR HEART? For Fall Daylight Savings Time, the opposite happens and the clocks jump back to 1 AM. once it hits 2am local time, so the time repeats itself before moving chronologically again. 1916 – The first instance of daylight saving time occurred in Germany on April 6, 1916, during World War I, according to the Records Division of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. In a blog post, the Textual Records Division said the Federal Council of Germany’s Bundesrat approved an order instructing citizens to change their clocks by adding “one hour of daylight per day during the months of May to September.” 1918 – Congress passed the Standard Time Act of 1918, according to an article published by the US House of Representatives History, Art & Archives website. The Standard Time Act of 1918 was the nation’s first national daylight saving time law. “The act, which built on an earlier campaign by railroad companies to synchronize their routes in North America, established five time zones in the continental United States and Alaska and, most importantly, set clocks forward one hour on the last Sunday of March and went back an hour on the last Sunday of October,” wrote History, Art & Archives in its report. THE EXPERTS SAY PERMANENT SPECIAL HOURS 1966 – The Uniform Time Act of 1966 was signed into law on April 13, 1966, by President Lyndon B. Johnson, according to the History, Art and Archives of the US House of Representatives. “Although the law would be amended many times over the following decades, the Uniform Time Act of 1966 remains a key foundation of our timekeeping system,” wrote History, Art & Archives. 71 – Only 71 countries observe daylight saving time, according to Time and Date, a Norwegian time zone and world clock website. View of planet Earth from the surface of the moon. Elements of this image furnished by NASA. (iStock) Daylight saving time is reported to still be used in eight countries in North America, two countries in South America, seven countries in Asia, two countries in Africa, three countries in Oceania (Australia and the Pacific Islands), and 49 countries in Europe. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP 2 states, 5 territories – Daylight saving time is not observed in Hawaii, Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation), American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures – a nonpartisan organization made up of sitting state legislators in Washington, DC 4th month, 10th month – In the United States, daylight saving time was observed in April and October, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Daylight saving time was moved to November and March by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which affected U.S. energy production. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS 6 in 10 Americans – A DST survey released by Monmouth University – a private college in West Long Branch, New Jersey – in March 2022 found that 61% of Americans would like to get rid of “ the nation twice a year time change.”
US states that want year-round DST
– Pacific: Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada – Mountain: Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico – Central: Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama – East: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida
29 states – Between 2015 and 2019, 29 states enacted year-round daylight saving time legislation, according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics. – Mountain: Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico – Central: Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama – East: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida The 29 states that would like to have daylight saving time year-round are seeking to “eliminate changing the clocks twice a year,” according to the transportation agency. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER The Department of Transportation is the government agency that has the “power” to change daylight saving time, and it’s “a power it has held since its inception in 1966,” the statistics office wrote. Cortney Moore is a contributing lifestyle writer on the Lifestyle team at Fox News Digital.
