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  2. Daylight saving time - Wikipedia

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    Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.

  3. William Willett - Wikipedia

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    The Daylight Inn, Petts Wood, 2011. Through vigorous campaigning, by 1908 Willett had managed to gain the support of a member of parliament (MP), Robert Pearce, who made several unsuccessful attempts to get it passed into law.

  4. Daylight saving time in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Ohio Clock in the U.S. Capitol being turned forward for the country's first daylight saving time on March 31, 1918 by the Senate sergeant at arms Charles Higgins.. Most of the United States observes daylight saving time (DST), the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour when there is longer daylight during the day, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less.

  5. Why Americans shifted, scrapped minutes and changed time ...

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    On Nov. 18, 1883, Americans adopted four standardized time zones, replacing a confusing, dangerous hodgepodge of times. Why Americans shifted, scrapped minutes and changed time forever 141 years ...

  6. Ready to spring forward for time change 2024? When ... - AOL

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    When does Daylight Savings 2024's time change fall back? Unless efforts to make daylight saving time permanent succeed, daylight saving time will end for the year at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3.

  7. George Hudson (entomologist) - Wikipedia

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    Hudson is credited with proposing modern-day daylight saving time. [2] His shift-work job gave him leisure time to collect insects, and led him to value after-hours daylight. [ 3 ] In 1895, he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift, [ 4 ] and after considerable interest was expressed ...

  8. History of time in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of United States standard time zone boundaries from 1919 to 2024 in five-year increments. Plaque in Chicago marking the creation of the four time zones of the continental US in 1883 Colorized 1913 time zone map of the United States, showing boundaries very different from today Map of U.S. time zones during between April 2, 2006, and March 11, 2007.

  9. When does the time change? Here's when Daylight Saving Time ...

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    Daylight saving time is an annual period when the United States and other countries change the clocks to make daylight last longer. In March, the clocks "spring forward" an hour, and in November ...