When is Daylight Saving Time and what time do the clocks change? Here's everything you need to know.
Daylight saving time is a changing of the clocks that typically begins in spring and ends in fall in what is often referred to as"spring forward" and"fall back."
Some people like to credit Benjamin Franklin as the inventor of daylight saving time when he wrote in a 1784 essay about saving candles and saying,"Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." But that was meant more as satire than a serious consideration. 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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