Remember to
"fall back" this Sunday, November 5. Turn back your clocks by one
hour at 2 a.m.
While we sprang forward on March 12 this year, we won't fall back until Sunday, Nov. 5. If you're old enough to remember a time before 2007, then you might recall Daylight Saving Time ending closer to Halloween. That's because from 1987 through 2006, Daylight Saving Time started on the first Sunday in April and lasted through the last Sunday in October. Then, the United States changed the dates to correspond with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, a bill designed to counteract America's energy problems.
While we sprang forward on March 12 this year, we won't fall back until Sunday, Nov. 5. If you're old enough to remember a time before 2007, then you might recall Daylight Saving Time ending closer to Halloween. That's because from 1987 through 2006, Daylight Saving Time started on the first Sunday in April and lasted through the last Sunday in October. Then, the United States changed the dates to correspond with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, a bill designed to counteract America's energy problems.
If
you're looking for someone to blame for the loss of sunlight, direct your ire
at Benjamin Franklin who suggested resetting clocks in the summer to conserve
energy. But it wasn't until about a century later when Europe reset its clocks during World War I, and the United
States followed in 1918.
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