Spring FORWARD this Weekend!
MOST PLACES across the U.S. – leaving out Hawaii, and parts of Arizona – will move to Daylight Saving Time this Sunday, March 10th at 2:00am.
That’s when we’ll “spring forward,” and move our clocks ahead one hour, shifting more daylight hours into the afternoon and evening. Daylight Saving Time will be the rule until we “fall back” and then set the clocks back an hour on November 3rd.
The idea of changing time is an old one – with many pointing to Founding Father Benjamin Franklin as the origin of the idea.
But, according to Kenneth Wright – a sleep researcher with the Colorado University Boulder – it actually became a practice in the U.S. way back in 1918 as an energy saving measure, although it was repealed a year later. Wright said Daylight Saving Time was reinstituted in 1942, during World War II, again as an energy saving measure, but wasn’t uniform across the U.S. until Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966.
Now there are efforts to do away with the changing of the clocks; in 2021 Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill – which would put Alabama on “Daylight Saving Time” year-round; that would make Alabama one of 19 states that would “take the leap.” The problem is doing that requires Congressional action – and, so far, that’s failed to receive bipartisan traction.
