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Daylight Saving Time 2022: 

Why Does the Time Change?

(Remember: In the Spring🌷🌼 we "Spring Ahead" 

and 

In the Fall 🍂🍁 we "Fall Back")

Daylight Saving Time (DST) 

is the practice of moving the clocks forward one hour from Standard Time during the summer months 

and 

changing them back again in the fall. 

The general idea is that this allows us all to make better use of natural daylight: moving the clocks forward one hour in the spring grants us more daylight during summer evenings, while moving clocks back one hour in the fall grants us more daylight during winter mornings. However, DST has many detractors—and rightfully so! 

Why Did Daylight Saving Time Start? 

When President Woodrow Wilson declared war, suddenly, energy conservation was of paramount importance, and several efforts were launched to enlist public support for changing the clocks. 

A group called the National Daylight Saving Convention distributed postcards showing Uncle Sam holding a garden hoe and rifle, turning back the hands of a huge pocket watch. Voters were asked to sign and mail to their congressman postcards that declared, “If I have more daylight, I can work longer for my country. 

We need every hour of light.” Manhattan’s borough president testified to Congress that the extra hour of light would be a boon to home gardening, and therefore increase the Allies’ food supply. Posters chided, “Uncle Sam, your enemies have been up and are at work in the extra hour of daylight—when will YOU wake up?”

With public opinion in its favor, Congress officially declared that all clocks would be moved ahead one hour at 2:00 A.M. on March 31, 1918. (Canada adopted a similar policy later the same year.) 

Americans were encouraged to turn off their lights and go to bed earlier than they normally did—at around 8:00 P.M.

Many Americans wrongly point to farmers as the driving force behind Daylight Saving Time. In fact, farmers were its strongest opponents and, as a group, stubbornly resisted the change from the beginning.

Most of Canada is on Daylight Saving Time; only portions of Saskatchewan and small pockets of British Columbia remain on Standard Time year-round. However, the practice has its detractors. 

In the words of a current-day Canadian poultry producer, “The chickens do not adapt to the changed clock until several weeks have gone by, so the first week of April and the last week of October are very frustrating for us.” 

Similarly, one Canadian researcher likened an increase in traffic accidents to the onset of Daylight Saving Time. 

Other experts insist that the extra hour of daylight reduces crime. 

As of 2021, an impressive 33 states have proposed bills to end the practice of switching clocks.

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