As summer across Chicago comes to an end, the days are beginning to get shorter, and the nights are beginning to get longer, signaling the end of daylight saving time.
Under federal law, daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March, and runs through the first Sunday of November in most of the United States.When Will DST Resume?
In the United States, daylight saving time lasts for a total of 34 weeks, running from early-to-mid March to the beginning of November in states that observe it. The United States didn't adopt daylight saving time until March 19, 1918. It was unpopular and abolished after World War I. States could still exempt themselves from daylight saving time, as long as the entire state did so. In the 1970s, due to the 1973 oil embargo, Congress enacted a trial period of year-round daylight saving time from January 1974 to April 1975 in order to conserve energy.Nearly every U.S. state observes daylight saving time, with the exceptions of Arizona and Hawaii. U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, do not observe daylight saving time.
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