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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.
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.
William Willett did not live to see daylight saving become law, as he died of influenza in 1915 at the age of 58. He is commemorated in Petts Wood by a memorial sundial, set permanently to daylight saving time. The Daylight Inn in Petts Wood is named in his honour as is the road Willett
Daylight savings time was never created for farmers but instead to save money and energy. The applicable concept is officially credited to New Zealand entomologist George Hudson in 1895.
Daylight saving time was not created to help farmers. According to Michael Downing, who wrote the book "Spring Forward, The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time", farmers opposed the time change ...
Daylight saving time wasn't reinstated until 1942, when circumstances created by World War II made the policy a priority again. Daylight saving time was so associated with WWI that it was ...
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 ...
In the fall, the daylight saving time period usually ends and our clocks are set back to standard time again. During the "fall back" we gain one hour, so the day of the transition is 25 hours long ...