When is savings time

Some states claim that bars actually stop serving liquor at a. Other states solve the problem by saying that liquor can be served until "two hours after midnight. Most people were at home and this was the time when the fewest trains were running. It is late enough to minimally affect bars and restaurants, and it prevents the day from switching to yesterday, which would be confusing. It is early enough that the entire continental U. For the U. The Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, even in Arizona, due to its large size and location in three states.

Many fire departments encourage people to change the batteries in their smoke detectors when they change their clocks because Daylight Saving Time provides a convenient reminder. More than 90 percent of homes in the United States have smoke detectors, but one-third are estimated to have dead or missing batteries.

The whole point of DST was so people would get up with the sun rise and then go to bed earlier at night to use less energy for lighting etc. In my opinion there is absolutely no value for it to be dark at pm. People are driving home in the dark. Commute auto accidents increase dramatically. We should keep Day Light Savings time all year long. There is no reason not too. DST should have ended long ago! It disrupts sleep, and it's been proven that people have a hard time adjusting to the change in the spring, causing accidents and even health problems due to sleep deprivation.

It serves no purpose except to disrupt the lives of every person in this country. Who is the government to disrupt my natural internal clock which all animals follow?

Standard is our natural time and messing with that messes with my system, my personal system! My body belongs to me, not to a government.

Consider the effect on the elderly, babies, children, families where both parents work, the mentally ill etc. Consider the effect on child neglect issues and domestic violence. Much money is spent to address these issues. Leave them alone. Stop it, there is no need for it any longer, leave it so we have a little more light in the winter afternoons, and longer summer evenings Every year twice for a week my system is messed up until it adjusts.

This is not something we need if we ever did. Leaving it DST all the time makes most sense to me, since "standard" isn't even five months anymore. After all "standard transmission" is now called "manual", since automatic is the most common in vehicles. Or, keep it Standard year round since that's best for our bodies. We have more efficient devices and lighting now than in the 's. Time change sucks, each direction. We should leave the clocks alone and follow the sun.

We should follow the cows, the chickens, the huskies, the lyons, the tigers, and every living things that is around. Who are we to disrupt their daily life cycle? We should learn from them and leave as naturally as possible. Let's follow the sun and the moon instead of the clock and all electronic devices.

This ridiculous law needs to be repealed. The native Americans said it best: Only a white man would believe you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.

I wish DST was year round. Hate seeing it get dark at 4 in the afternoon during the winter. Love the light later.. Who wants it getting dark at 8 in the middle of summer? I think DST is awful. Time doesn't change. Silly people change time. It makes everyone feel bad. I am always glad when clocks go back to REAL time. The sun will set in Newark at p. The following day — after Daylight Saving time concludes — sunset is more than an hour earlier at p.

Days will continue to get shorter until Dec. Then the length of days will begin to increase until the summer solstice on June 21, The flip side is that the sun will rise approximately one hour earlier each morning.

On Nov. The next day the sun comes up at a. So while millions of people will now travel home from work mostly or entirely in the dark, their morning commute will include more daylight. It was not started to help America's farmers out. According to timeanddate. But Germany popularized daylight saving time after it first set the clocks forward on April 30, , to save coal during World War I. Daylight saving time became a national standard in when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act, which was established as a way to continue to conserve energy.

The thinking was if it's light out longer, that's less time you'll need to use the lights in your house. Presently, Hawaii and Arizona are the only two U. Neither do the U. In the past four years, 19 states have passed legislation or resolutions seeking to make Daylight Saving Time the standard time in their states, if Congress takes action, according to the National Conference of State Legislators. It would be contingent on a repeal of the federal law, and would only take effect if neighboring states went year-round, too.