Turn Your Clocks Ahead One Hour This Weekend

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Its that time again to change the clocks ahead one hour and spring ahead. This Sunday, March 8th, Daylight Savings Time officially begins at 2 am. Here are some interesting facts about Daylight Savings Time that you might not have known.1. More than a half a century before any country adapted Daylight Savings Time; Benjamin Franklin proposed a similar concept in 1784. Franklin pitched the idea as a money saver but the first official credit for Daylight Savings Time is credited to a Bug Collector in New Zealand in 1895. His idea was banned but two decades later, the concept was adapted by most of the world. 2. World War I pushed Daylight Savings Time into Law. In 1916, Germany was the first country to officially adapt the concept in effort to conserve coal during World War I. Britain and most of Europe followed Germany’s plan, but it wasn’t until 1918 when the United States adopted the time change. 3. Daylight Savings Time in the United States is not observed by every state. Arizona is the only state in the US that does not observe Daylight Savings Time. Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Florida are among a few states trying to observe year-round standard time. In Florida, the Governor signed a bill in 2018 called the Sunshine Protection Act that was to eliminate Daylight Savings Time, the bill now is still awaiting approval from Congress. 4. Daylight Savings Time doesn’t start until 2 am. The time change is delayed in hopes that people aren’t awake to even notice it.5. It Saves Electricity: depending on where you live in the United States, when Daylight Savings Times kicks in it means an extra hour of daylight in the afternoon.For more interesting facts about Daylight Savings Time, click here to read more.