You're going to lose an hour. But that's okay: it's daylight savings time. Don't forget to turn your clocks one hour ahead at 2 a.m. tomorrow for daylight saving time.
It'll feel like 2 a.m. but it'll be 3 a.m.
DST Factoid from the Edmonton Sun: Daylight saving time, which requires participating regions to turn
their clocks one hour ahead in the spring and one hour back in the
fall, was introduced by the U.S. as an energy-saver in 2005. The idea
was, shifting an hour of daylight from early morning to late evening
would be more in sync with waking time and reduce residential energy
use.
More like 53 years to be precise
Yes, the Act of March 19, 1918, AKA the Standard Time Act. established daylight saving time, as well as time zones, but that only lasted one year and daylight saving time was repealed in 1919.
In World War II ‘war time’ setting clocks ahead one hour was observed from February ninth 1942 until September thirtieth 1945.
The first annually scheduled dates in spring and fall were set in the 1966 Uniform Time Act which set daylight time to begin on the last Sunday in April and to end on the last Sunday in October.
In 1974 on account of the “energy crisis”daylight time began on January sixth.
In 1975 it was changed to February 23
In 1976 it went back to back to the last Sunday in April until 1987.
In 1986, congress shifted the starting date of daylight time to the first Sunday in April,starting in 1987. The ending date of daylight time was last Sunday in October throughout all of those changes.
In 2005 congress changed both the start and end dates beginning in 2007 so that now daylight time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
“Sporadically legislated from 1918 to 1966, spring and fall clock re-setting was standardized with frequent changes from 1966 until 2007 when legislation passed in 2005 setting the current standards took effect” would be more precise. “The current standards date to legislation in 2005” is just as true and more to the point.
Hope your fact-checking skills are a bit better … you used the Edmonton Sun “factoid” twice … you have to know that the US has been using Daylight Saving Time for over 90 years – 1918 to be precise.