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Barbados in the western Atlantic no longer observes Daylight Saving Time, like many Caribbean nations. The last observance of a daylight saving-related time clock adjustment was between Sunday, 20 April 1980 at 02:00 and Thursday, 25 September 1980 at 02:00. On 25 September the clock was shifted from -3:00 to -4:00, where it has remained since.
Morocco, including the portion of Western Sahara that it administers, also observes an annual time change but not related to seasonal daylight. The local time is decreased by one hour on the Sunday before Ramadan at 03:00, and increased by one hour on the Sunday after Ramadan at 02:00 (in 2024, the dates are 10 March and 14 April).
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.
On Sunday, clocks fell back an hour to end daylight saving time. Here are the dates, origin and history behind the Standard Time Act.
The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established national start and end dates for daylight saving time, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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 Uniform Time Act of 1966 got most of the country on the same page by mandating national start and end dates to daylight saving time, though states were still allowed to opt out.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended daylight saving time for an additional month beginning in 2007. The Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 passed the United States Senate in March 2022. The bill would make daylight saving time the time year-round in the entire United States. The bill was not voted on by the House of Representatives. [10]