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All About Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time begins for Potter County Pa. at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April, the 2nd for 2006. Time reverts to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October, the 29th for 2006.
Remember - Spring Forward, Fall Back
Date Changes For 2007
On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday of March and end the first Sunday of November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to revert the Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete.
How daylight saving started.
The main idea behind Daylight Saving Time (DST) is to allow people and businesses to utilize daylight more effectively. More specifically, turning the clocks back in the fall and ahead in the spring helps to conserve energy.
According to many historians, the original idea for DST originated with none other than Ben Franklin, who was known for his practical ideas in the realms of science and public policy.
In 1784, as he approached the end of his term as an American delegate in Paris, Franklin penned "An Economical Project", a discourse on the merits of natural versus artificial lighting. It included many ideas that the city of Paris could enact to conserve energy and make better use of daylight.
Britain adopted the concepts and was the first country to put DST into effect starting in 1840 with London railroads. By 1855 a large majority of Britain`s clocks were set to DST.
The United States created a law putting daylight saving time in effect during World War One and World War Two. Between 1945 and 1966 there was no U.S. law to enforce daylight saving time.
By 1966 daylight saving time was in use by over 100 million Americans due to local laws and customs. Many of these individuals were farmers, who felt their productivity benefited from the extra daylight in the morning.
In 1966, the Uniform Time Act was passed, setting up a system of uniform (within each time zone) Daylight Saving Time throughout the United States and its territories.
The fall season is a natural time to turn the clocks back and forward in the spring, since it is a time when home and business owners are switching from air conditioning to heat.
The specific "turn back the clock date" that saves the most energy year-to-year depends on weather conditions in a particular country. In the U.S. the clocks are always turned back on the last Sunday of October. The clocks are turned forward on the first Sunday in April.
However, daylight saving time is not used in most of the Eastern Time Zone portion of of Indiana, Arizona (aside from the Navajo Reservation), Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Many farmers in Indiana feel that Daylight Saving Time is not beneficial to them, since it reduces their ability to get work done in the early morning hours and limits their participation in evening activities.
Many other countries use daylight saving time as well, including all of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Chile, Israel and Egypt.
In the southern hemisphere countries like Australia, Brazil and Chile, the dates are reversed because their seasons are the opposite of the northern hemisphere`s. Thus clocks are turned back in March or April and forward in September or October.
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