Daylight Savings Time Starts this Saturday
Starting this year, Daylight Savings Time has been changed from its traditional calendar dates to a start three weeks earlier.
---Beginning Sunday, March 11th, and a finishing one week later --- Sunday, November 4th
Daylight Savings Time is practiced in order to gain an extra hour os daylight during the early evening, rsultuing in the conservation
of energy by substituting natural sunlight for electrical ligting.
According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, Daylight Savings Time first began in 1918 during World War I to allow for more evening
alignment light and save fuel for hte war effort. Since then, Daylight Savings Time has been used on and off, with different start and
end dates.
Benjamin Franklin first suggested the idea in 1784. It was later revived in 1907, when William Willett proposed a similar system in
the pamphlet The Waste of Daylight. The Germans, were the first to officially adopt the light-extending system in 1915, followed by
the British, and in 1918 the United States, when Congresss passed the Standard Time Act, establishing our time zones.