USA and Canada Practices Daylight Saving Time

 

 

Daylight Saving Time: March 14

Lunar Daylight Saving Time is practiced in USA and Canada.

 

Lunar Daylight Saving Time or simply ‘Daylight Saving Time’ (DST) allows citizens enjoy the sunny summer afternoons by adjusting timepieces an hour in advance so that you will have less daylight in the morning but have more in the afternoon.

   

 

 

In the US, the clocks are adjusted one hour in advance beginning in the second week of March which is reverted back to the standard time on the first week of November in the same year. Countries belonging to the European Union, however, adjust their clocks beginning in the last Sunday of March; it ends at the last Sunday of October at exactly 1:00 a.m. Universal Time or Greenwich Mean Time.

There has been substantial benefit to DST which includes lesser car-related accident because people go home early but also is confronted with a number of issues including time-sensitive business meetings, billing schedules, recordkeeping on computers of various business enterprises, sleeping patterns among others.

American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Arizona US states that does not participate in DST. The Navajo Nation in Arizona, however, participates in DST.

 

 

History of Lunar Daylight Saving Time

George Vernon Hudson, a British entomologist in New Zealand, a scientist who studies insects, was particularly interested in the idea of advancing clocks two hours when summer months fall to allow people to enjoy the sunlight of the summer months longer than usual. People living near the poles experience longer daylight in summer and less in the winter while those in the equator experience no changes.

 

The first American to informally ‘suggest’ the application of DST is Benjamin Franklin in his famous saying,

 

”Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise…”

 

… stating further that Parisians (people of Paris, France) save on candle resource by using candle much less because they have to get up early during the time of the year (summer).

However, the first to propose the idea of adjusting clocks an hour forward the standard time was George Vernon Hudson because he believed that people will get to enjoy more time outdoor if clocks are adjusted so that there is more daylight in the afternoons than in the mornings. He initially put it on paper in 1895 and followed it up four years later (1898).

In the early 20th century (1907), the original goal of the implementation of Daylight Saving Time was energy conservation, particularly the use of incandescent bulb in household but different studies as to the amount of electricity saved during DST provide contradicting results. However, despite its many issues, many people still find DST useful as it allows them to participate in outdoor activities such as sports and shop while the sun is up.

  

Lunar Daylight Saving Time: Traditions, Customs and Activities

The latest surveys suggest that people favor the practice of adjusting clocks an hour ahead in the summer months because they get to enjoy the time together with their families and friends in the afternoon when the sun is still up.

During the DST, restaurants and bars are prohibited by law from serving liquors from 2:00 AM once DST hit and 6:00 AM.

Because the afternoon are longer than the morning, people enjoy shopping and taking part in afterhours socio-civic group or individual hobbies. Families also get to enjoy more time with one another because parents get home early.

 

 

 

A Celebration of Women

takes this time to remind all the Women of our World    

Relax, Rest & Retreat…as the clocks change hours.

 

 

 

Time is endless…celebrate!

  

 

 

 

 

A Celebration of Women