Here's a look at when daylight saving time starts and ends during the year, so you know when to change your clock and not miss an important engagement. You'll also learn about the history of daylight saving time, why we have it now and some myths and interesting facts about the time ...
Daylight Saving Time(DST) is used to save energy and make better use of daylight. It was first used in 1908 in Thunder Bay, Canada. One of the advantages of Daylight Savings is the long summer evenings. ©iStockphoto.com/Lacheev Daylight Saving Time is the practice of setting the clock...
You may wonder why we have Daylight Saving Time. Here's the history of DST and if it will ever end permanently thanks to the Sunshine Protection Act.
Do we really have to do it? Will it ever stop? And here are the answers. Why do we do Daylight Saving Time? What does it mean? The popular idea that Benjamin Franklin invented Daylight Saving Time is half-true. He wrote a humorous letter to the editor of The Journal of Paris in...
While the clocks on our smartphones alter themselves, we have to go around the house and manually update those clocks that need doing. Daylight Saving Day FAQs What time do we turn the clocks back? On Daylight Savings Day, we turn our clocks back an hour at 2am., so the clock will...
10 reasons why daylight savings is the worstZoë Miller
It doesn’t really help anyone, they say, but it does throw off sleep schedules around the country. As a result, even more states and cities are considering bills to do away with DST. ☀️ Science is on our side. We’ll help you make sense of it all. What these articles and ...
twilight arrives before 5 p.m. is always a shock to the system. I can’t help but feel cheated. I know we get that hour of daylight back in the mornings—that we are notreallysaving or losing any hours of daylight—but somehow, that morning hour doesn’t feel like adequ...
(way too common around here for about 4-5 months of the year…. but then we don’t have any climbs to really generate peak body heat) but I guess I’m a little confused by the emphasis on multi-layered shell material when one layer oughta do it and by what seems to be almost an...
In the Northern Hemisphere, the switch to daylight savings time in March results in most people losing an hour of sleep opportunity. When viewed across the millions of daily hospital records, this seemingly trivial sleep reduction comes with a frightening spike in heart attacks the following day....