Spring Ahead!

It is that day. . .Spring ahead for 2025! Don’t forget to reset your clocks tonight! At 2 am tonight, it is time to reset your clocks ahead one hour. Longer daylight in the early evening hours. So at 2 a.m., the time will have a missing hour between the time zones, all across America as it spans the country.

Spring Ahead  ! ! ! 

Meaning:
This means if you cross the time zone the clocks will seem like you are having a bit less jet lag. If you book a flight during the change, you will arrive in one less hour either west or east. The phenomenon of an earlier sunset is very detrimental to those who have some disabilities including depression. The Sunshine Protection Act has been an ongoing for years effort being made in order to make daylight saving time permanent across the U.S. Studies on depression and other decease, plus safety. Did you know. . .Monday will have a maximum amount of accidents? Not only is the Sun in a bad position, people will have a deficit of attention due to fatigue and depression, simply due to the time change. They have been talking about doing this for years, but the stigma was always the amount of summer daylight, so keeping daylight savings makes more sense.. Studies have found that year-round time settings like Daylight Saving Time would improve the public health, public safety, and mental health–especially those who really “feel” the effect of the time change. There is more information about this found in this article, brought to you by the Sleep Foundation.

Photo courtesy of LunaPic

A Brief History:
1st Implementation: From the years 1916-1918–during World-War I, original time laws were enacted to institute more daylight for war purposes, and was not liked by many so as to repeal the laws mostly until we got to World War II where Daylight Savings Time came back year round between 1942 to 1945.

2nd Era: Between 1945 to 1966 it was left up to the municipalities whether it was observed, until the Johnson administration. In 1966, the start of DST was the last Sunday of April.

Spring Ahead on Twitter, 500km around Courtenay, BC on March 11, 2011 courtesy of Openverse

The Daylight Saving Time Energy Act: It was established into law in the Nixon administration on January 6, 1974. It reflected the oil embargo era, with hopes that it could be of some assistance for energy reasons. It however encountered some safety issues, as I remember the darkness of going to grammar school in mornings.

The rest of the 70’s: The laws were amended the for Standard Time to start the last week in October 1974 and Daylight Saving Time resuming on the last week in February 1975 making it a little better.

The 70’s into the 80’s: After the energy crisis was over by the year 1976, the US schedule was revised several times throughout the next decade, moving around the month of April to late March.

1986 to 2006: The U.S. observed Daylight Saving Time for about 7 months each year, with the next change beginning Daylight Saving Time on the first Sunday in April, and I still have a lot of clocks that change themselves that reflect the time.

2007: The Energy Policy Act was enacted August 8, 2005 extending the yearly Daylight Savings Time period in the United States by several weeks. This finally went into effect starting 2007. The two changes that have remained since are:

• Starting time of DST was moved from the first Sunday of April to the second Sunday of March.
• End of DST was moved from the last Sunday of October to the first Sunday in November.

More Recently:
Recent activity: States continue preparing for permanence of having daylight savings a permanent fixture. States are already able to recognize standard time all year, but most states balk on the earlier sunsets and pre-3 a.m. sunrises in the summer months associated with switching to permanent standard times. It would create jobs literally in the computer programming industry and also other scheduling businesses, as having a state offset like this would be a transition at the very least and would take some time to factor into commerce. I will keep you informed as to the status of these issues as needed.

Daylight Savings Time courtesy of Openverse

More:
Now: At 2 a.m., the time will change 1 hour ahead, so it will skip the 2 o’clock hour, in essence becoming 3 a.m.

Working during/Employment: Your employer is NOT obligated to pay you for the lost hour of time, and you are not able to enforce your employer to pay for such. The 4 hour minimum is met and they only have to pay for three hours if you work during this time period.

Important safety reminder: Change the batteries on your smoke detectors and alarm clocks before you go to bed tonight. Most fire marshals highly recommend this time to assist in making sure that batteries aren’t at fault of the possibility of a fire, and that the automatic change during the time change serves purpose of making sure that it is done–even though in reality, the batteries should be checked on a monthly basis.

Clocks 2 courtesy of Openverse

Hashtags:
#DaylightSavings #DaylightSavingsTime #DST #StandardTimeEnds #TimeChange #SpringAhead #CheckYourBatteries

Don’t be late for church or Monday morning for work! Be safe!! Change those clocks not connected to the internet, watch your NIST radio controlled atomic clocks change automatically. Automated and/or the IOT (Internet of Things) you don’t have to worry about, they change automatically!

Daylight Saving Time courtesy of Openverse

Spring Ahead to DST!

I have studied the ramifications of leaving the time on any cycle (DST or Standard) year-round in further north latitudes like we are in Illinois, and after further enlightenment that if the time change doesn’t happen, the sunrises and sunsets in summer are too early without DST. But DST in winter has the children out in darkness. Therefore the safety factor studied seems to open up new dangers, so I agree that the time change may be needed with upkeep of the way we live in modern society.