Standard Time Begins Sunday Morning at 2:00AM

Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 1, 2020, at 2:00 A.M.

On Saturday evening, our clocks need to “fall back” one hour. I am not too sure why they refer to it as standard time because of the 12 months in their calendar, only 4 months honor it.

History records Ben Franklin as one of the early proponents at daylight saving time suggesting Americans should “rise at the crack of dawn to save the expense of candlelight.”

It was in this spirit that Germany, in 1916, during the Great War, first initiated daylight-saving time. It was an effort to conserve electricity in the motherland during the war.  It was apparently a wise approach as in 1918 the US as well as many allies copied the strategy.

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While this strategy was discontinued after the war many states continued with the practice of turning the clocks ahead one hour in the spring and back an hour come fall. During World War II Franklin Roosevelt imposed daylight savings time on the entire country, for the entire year. Once again, the order was repealed the 1945, at war’s end, although many states chose to continue its practice.

It was 20 years later, in 1966, that Congress passed legislation setting a standard time that permanently superseded local habits. While it is generally the accepted norm, some states and localities, due to a variety of reasons, now choose not to participate.