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These four words have a whole collection of trivia, facts, and common sense about Daylight Saving Time.
Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of April and stays in until 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October.
The main reason we change our clocks to Daylight Saving Time is that it saves energy.
It “makes” the sun set one hour later, and therefore reduces the time between bedtime by one hour. This means less electricity is used for lighting and appliances.
In an average home, 25 percent of all electricity is used for lighting and small appliances such as televisions, VCR's, radio and stereos. When the clock is moved ahead one hour, we cut the amount of electricity we consume each day.
Studies done in 1970 by the Department of Transportation showed that we cut the entire countrys’ electricity usage by about one percent. Each day with the Daylight Saving Time added up this can be very large, while the amount of energy per household is small.
Daylight Saving Time is a change in the standard time of each time zone. Time zones were first used by the railroads in 1883 to standardize their schedules.
In 1918 the U.S. Congress
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