Change Clocks This Weekend And Check Those Smoke Detectors.!

Change clocks this weekend

By: Kim Hackler

Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday. That's when time "falls back" to 1 a.m.

The time change, of course, means it will get dark earlier in the evening, but it also means that morning daylight will come an hour earlier, and school children won't be waiting for the bus in the dark.
Daylight saving time will return to Georgia at 2 a.m. on March 13, 2011.The use of daylight time was first established in the U.S. in 1918 as part of the Standard Time Act, which also officially instituted the time zones in the United States. However, daylight time was contentious at the time and was repealed in 1919, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory. It became a local matter. It was reestablished nationally during World War II and was observed from February 1942 to September 1945, when it became a local option again. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 provided standardization in the dates of the beginning and end of daylight time, but allowed for local exemptions. Beginning in 1966, daylight time began on the last Sunday in April and ended the last Sunday in October.During the "energy crisis" of the 1970s, the start date was moved forward and daylight time began Jan. 6 in 1974 and Feb. 23 in 1975. Then, it reverted to the last Sunday in April.In 1986, a law was passed moving the start of daylight time to the first Sunday in April.

The current configuration of daylight and standard time was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which went into effect in 2007. The time change has also traditionally been a time when people are reminded to check the batteries in their smoke detectors.



 Kim Hackler ABR,REALTOR,BROKER

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