By Jamie Stengle, Associated Press
Dallas (AP) – Again, most Americans will put their clocks in advance this weekend, Maybe lose a little sleep But in the evening more glorious sunlight get as warm in the summer.
Where did all this come from?
How we came to move the clock in the spring and then push it back into the fall is a story that extends more than a century – a story that is driven by two world wars, massive confusion sometimes and a human desire to cherish in the sun for a long time.
There has been a lot of discussion about practice, but around 70 countries – about 40% of the worldwide – currently use what Americans call daylight savings.
While they jump the clocks “Type of shocks our system”, the extra daylight gets people outdoors, exercising and having fun, says Anne Buckle, web editor at TimeAnddate.com, who contains information about time, time zones and astronomy.
“The real, really great advantage is the clear evenings, right?” She says. “It is actually hours of daylight after you get home from work to spend time with your family or activities. And that’s great. “
Here are some things to know, so you will be familiar with the practice of people who change from time:
How did all this start?
In the 1890s George Vernon Hudson, an astronomer and entomologist in New Zealand, presented a time shift in the spring and the fall to increase daylight. And in the early 1900s, the British house builder William Willett, troubled that people did not enjoy the morning sunlight, a similar push. But neither proposal received sufficient traction to be implemented.
Germany started saving daylight during the First World War with the idea that it would save energy. Other countries, including the United States, soon followed. During the Second World War, the US reset what was called ‘wartime’ all year round throughout the year.
In the United States today, every state observes, except Hawaii and Arizona. All over the world, Europe, much of Canada and part of Australia also implement it, while Russia and Asia are currently not.
Inconsistency and mass confusion
After the Second World War there was a patchwork of time valuation in the United States, with some areas of daylight time saving through the daylight and others dump it.
“You may have one city that saves daylight, the neighboring city may have daylight savings, but start it and end it on different dates and the third neighboring city may not have it at all,” says David Prerau, author of the book “Grab the daylight: the curious and controversial story of daylight saving time.”
At one point, when riders on a bus ride of 35 miles (56 kilometers) from Steubenville, Ohio to Moundsville, West Virginia, wanted their watches to be accurate, they should change them seven times while they fell in and out of daylight saving time, says Prerau.
So in 1966 the American congress approved the Uniform Time Act, who say that states can either implement daylight savings or not, but it must be in the entire state. The action also requires the day that the daylight -saving time starts and ends throughout the country.
Confusion in the time that change is, is not just something from the past. Chaos followed in the Nation Lebanon last spring when the government has a last-minute decision To slow down the start of the daylight by saving a month – until the end of the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan. Some institutions made the change and others refused while citizens tried to merge their schemes. Within a few days, the Decision was reversed.
“It really became a huge mess in which nobody knew what time it was,” says Buckle.
What would it be like if we didn’t change the clocks?
Changing the clocks twice a year leads to a lot of grumbling and pushes to use standard time all year round, or to keep the daylight -saving throughout the year.
During the energy crisis of the 1970s, the US began to save all year round for daylight savings, and Americans didn’t like it. With the sun not in the winter in some areas up to about 9 hours or even later, people woke up in the dark, went to work in the dark and sent their children to school in the dark, says Prelerau.
“It became very unpopular very quickly,” says Prerau.
And, he notes that the entire year would be used by standard time to lose that extra hour of daylight in the evening in the United States.
A nod to the early adopters
In 1908 the Canadian city of Thunder Bay – when the two cities of Fort William and Port Arthur – changed the central time zone in the eastern time zone for the summer and autumn after a citizen named John Hewitson argued that an extra hour of daylight would pay to enjoy the Buitenleven in Thunder, Benel Dejong. Benel Dejong.
The following year, however, Port Arthur remained in Eastern times, while Fort William returned to the Central Time in the fall, which led to all kinds of confusion, “says Dejong.
Today the city of Thunder Bay is in the eastern time and observes the daylight gain, giving the area: “just wonderfully warm, long days to enjoy” in the summer, says Paul Pepe, manager of the tourist manager of Thunder Bay.
The city, located on Lake Superior, is far enough to the north that the sun sets around 10 p.m. in the summer, says Pepe, and that helps to make up for their cold dark winters. Residents, he says, tend to go on holiday in the winter and in the summer to stay at home: “I think that for many people here, the long days, the warm summer temperatures, it’s a holiday in your back garden.”
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