Daylight Savings Time 2014, When Does it End; What You Need to Know?
It's time again to discuss about the "spring forward and fall back one hour" daylight saving time. Daylight savings time this year started on Sunday, March 9 in which clocks were turned forward one hour.
This coming Sunday, Nov. 2, at 2 p.m., Daylight Savings Time dictates that clocks be turned backwards at 1 p.m. local standard time.
Internet/Wi-Fi enabled devices like smartphones, computers, tablets, etc. will most likely to update automatically when the DST schedule arrives. However, timers and clocks on localized devices like microwaves, stoves, alarm clocks, and others, might have to be adjusted manually.
First conceived by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, this "biannual brouhaha" was enacted in the U.S. in 1918. It was unpopular back then.
A few years later, with the coming of World War 2, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reinstituted the DST practice year-round. The mandate lapsed soon as the war subsided.
However, the Congress in 1966 passed the uniform Time Act, establishing the DST as a standard. They included in the resolution that for those states that opt to pass out on the Act could do so by passing a state law.
According to USA Today, Arizona and Hawaii are the only states in the country that don't observe the daylight saving time.
Meanwhile in Utah, two lawmakers are reported by The Washington Post to have been pushing a bill that will get rid of the DST practice.
According to the Post, the first reason for such proposal is the safety concerns of the parents about their kids going to school in a relatively dark morning.
Rep. Greg Wren of Alabama even introduced a bill for a "year-round daylight saving time." As said, it would keep the state on Central Daylight Time while eradicating the need to switch the clocks twice a year.
"People are tired of springing forward and falling back," Rep. Greg Wren, the lawmaker told The Montgomery Advertiser. "A lot of it is simply the fact that it's an archaic standard."
