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It's Time To "Fall Back!" Daylight Saving Time Ends On November 6th
On November 6, 2022, most North Americans will mark the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST) by moving the clocks back an hour. The simple action will help shift daylight back into the morning during the shorter winter days. It will also add an extra 60 minutes to the weekend!
The German Empire was the first to manipulate the clocks in 1916. The army wanted to conserve the fuel needed to produce weapons and bombs for World War I. The US and Britain adopted the practice shortly after. All the countries reverted to Standard Time once the war ended, only to reinstate DST again during World War II. US officials repealed DST nationally when the war ended in 1945. But states and districts were allowed to continue the tradition and even select their own start and stop DST dates.
This resulted in what Time Magazine called a "chaos of clocks." By 1965, Iowa had 23 different pairs of DST start and end dates. St. Paul, Minnesota, began daylight saving two weeks earlier than its twin city Minneapolis, Minnesota, just nine miles away. Meanwhile, passengers on a 35-mile bus ride from Steubenville, Ohio, to Moundsville, West Virginia, passed through seven time changes!
The Uniform Time Act of 1966 ended the confusion by setting the same "spring forward" and "fall back" dates for the entire nation. But the law was not compulsory. Hawaii, most of Arizona, and the US territories Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands did not adopt DST.
The DST dates were initially set for the last Sundays in April and October. However, in 1986, US president Ronald Reagan changed the DST start date to the first Sunday in April. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 moved up the DST start date further to the second Sunday in March. It also extended out the "fall back" date to the first Sunday in November.
https://www.dogonews.com/2022/11/3/its-time-to-fall-back-daylight-saving-time-ends-on-november-6th
GreenWave
(6,757 posts)They did this to us to play golf later and blamed the farmers, IIRC for messing with time.
former9thward
(32,017 posts)I am glad I live in Arizona where we don't put up with it.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)I wish theyd stick to standard time, not DST.
Xolodno
(6,395 posts)...I would consider moving to Arizona.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,492 posts)So, theres that.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)I have an analog clock in one of my bathrooms and one in the living room also. I like analog clocks. The bathroom one I wont have to change because I kept forgetting to change it after we went forward lol. Now itll be correct.
And the stupid clock in my car has to be changed, and I can never figure it out. Ill just be subtracting a hour until spring now.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Usually takes me a week to get them all set right lol.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)My workout watch is digital, but I still have to change it. Of course Ive long since lost the instructions so itll probably be wrong until spring.
Sympthsical
(9,074 posts)I'm kidding of course.
Although I do. Almost all of my appliances are on wifi for some reason. It's baffling. By far, the most confusing is the fridge. Like, why? What is going on in the fridge that I'm supposed to be monitoring on my phone? Is it going to alert me when the human heads start defrosting?
If my toaster ever becomes sentient, it's just going to be pissed at me. "Ciabatta doesn't go in me!" "Yes, it does. Shut up, or I'll make you a can opener."
Except the can opener probably also has opinions and a Twitter account.
My home is very confusing. I see how Skynet went bad.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)until a week or more goes by. A fridge on Wi-Fi? What will they think of next?
We really need to have an emoji of an old person with an ear trumpet here for those of us who cant keep up.
Have you seen the Alexa/Roomba commercial? I just saw it yesterday. Not a fan of ads, but its clever and funny.
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)Have to be manually set as well as stove top etc. such apita. As if I dont have enough things to do already.
I f hate dls, I thought they had finally gotten rid of this crap. Now my body clock is going to be even more fff up for 3-4 months. Another reason to leave.
But thank you for reminding me 😀 this direction is a bit easier.