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By Doyle Rice, United States, today
This is one of the rites of autumn, with pumpkin spice, football games and leaf collecting: it is the time of the end of the hour. summer, which will take place at 2 pm on Sunday 4 November.
So, if you are tired of dark mornings on your way to school or work, it's time to get up and shine. But if you are afraid to go home in the dark, you will have no chance for the next few months.
On the 4th – or the day before – at 2 am – the few analogue clocks still in place must "fall back" for an hour and turn into an hour of 1:59:59 in the morning. Microwave ovens and ovens are part of will need a manual adjustment.
As most of our computers, smartphones and digital recorders do it automatically, it's no longer a chore like before.
From Sunday, this time of day is usually shifted from evening to morning, at the normal time. We only return to summer time on Sunday, March 10, 2019, about 10 days before the beginning of spring.
The purpose of the summer time is supposed to save energy, lives (by preventing road accidents) and reduce crime.
Here are 12 fun facts about the daylight saving time that you may not have known:
1. While not necessarily advocating changing the time, Benjamin Franklin urged his compatriots to work during the day and sleep after dark, saving money on candles. (It was probably an ironic comment.)
2. The United States first adopted summer time during the First World War in order to save fuel through the Standard Time Act of 1918, also known as the Calder Act. time that was commonly called "war time".
3. The correct term is the summer time "summer time" (no saving). However, the incorrect term "summer time" is commonly used, especially in Australia, Canada and the United States. It is also supposed to be lowercase, not capitalized, according to the Associated Press's stylebook.
4. Who knew? The United States Department of Transportation is responsible for the time in the United States, including time zones and daylight saving time.
5. Summer time became a federal law in 1966, with the adoption of the law on the standardization of the hour. It was signed by President Lyndon Johnson.
6. Only two states do not observe: Hawaii and Arizona. Other unobserved territories include American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
7. Parts of Indiana have not observed the summer time until 2006, when this law became a law at the scale of l & # 39; State.
8. Twenty-six states want to implement CHW all year round. Florida could be the first. However, the US Congress should amend the law to allow states to keep daylight saving time all year round.
9. Eight months of the year are in the summer time and four months in the normal time.
10. Adults 65 years and older may have more difficulty than others with the change of time.
11. During the energy crisis of the 1970s, Congress ordered states to move to the late hour of the year between January 1974 and April 1975.
12. Summer time is observed in about 70 countries, most of them in North America and Europe.
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