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Text Box: Spring forward….Fall Back….Beginning this year, Daylight Saving Time is extended one month and begins for most of the United States at 2 a.m. on the Second Sunday in March and ends 2 a.m. on the First Sunday of November. The new start and stop dates were set in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 was passed by Congress and then signed into law by President Bush on August 8, 2005. Under the new law, Daylight Saving Time begins three weeks earlier than previously, on the second Sunday in March. DST is extended by one week to the first Sunday in November. The original house bill would have added two full months, one

Text Box: in the spring and another in the fall. According to some U.S. senators, farmers complained that a two-month extension could adversely affect livestock and airline officials said it would have complicated scheduling of international flights. So a compromise was worked out and the law passed. Daylight Saving Time – for the U.S. and its territories—is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and by most of Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona). Indiana, which used to be split with a portion of the state

Text Box: observing DST and the other half not, is now whole. In the past, counties in the Eastern Time Zone portion of the state did not observe DST. They were on standard time year round.

Text Box: Mark Your Calendars! DST Start and End Dates 2007-2015 Mar 11, 2007—Nov 4, 2007 Mar 9, 2008—Nov 2, 2008 Mar 8, 2009—Nov 1, 2009 Mar 14, 2010—Nov 7, 2010 Mar 13, 2011—Nov 6, 2011 Mar 11, 2012—Nov 4, 2012 Mar 10 2013—Nov 3, 2013 Mar 9, 2014—Nov 2, 2014 Mar 8, 2015—Nov 1, 2015

Text Box: One of the biggest reasons we change our clocks to Daylight Saving Time is that it saves energy. Energy use and the demand for electricity for lighting our homes is directly connected to when we go to bed and when we get up. Daylight Saving Time “makes” the sun “set” one hour later and

Text Box: therefore reduces the period between sunset and bedtime by one hour. This means that less electricity would be used for lighting and appliances late in the day. Daylight Saving Time was first introduced in Britain as British Summer Time in 1916. England recognized that the nation could save energy and changed their

Text Box: clocks during the first World War. By 1966 U.S. Congress passed the Uniform Time Act of 1966 and created Daylight Saving Time to be the last Sunday of April and to end on the last Sunday of October. The law was amended in 1986 to start on the first Sunday in April.

• In 1973 the U.S. went on a two-year extended DST following the Arab Oil Embargo.

• Contrary to popular belief, DST was not created for farmers, nor does it benefit farmers.

• DST was first thought of in 1784 by Benjamin Franklin in his essay “An Economical Project”.

• A man born just after 12:00 a.m. circumvented the Vietnam War draft by arguing that Standard time, not DST was the official time for recording births in Delaware in the year of his birth. Thus under official standard time, he was actually born on the previous day—that day had a much higher draft lottery number—allowing him to avoid the draft.!