So someone tell me why Daylight savings time is coming early this year?

Question

How does daylight savings save energy?

Answer 1

Congress changed Daylight Savings. An amendment was added to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (H.R. 6) to extend Daylight Savings Time by 4 weeks (3 weeks earlier in March and going 1 week later). This Amendment was added as an effort to save energy in the US by adding more daylight hours to the work day hoping that businesses and individuals will need less heat/lighting/etc. during that time. The Amendment was also added to decrease the number of car accidents due to poor visibility and "night blindness." Though this year the change will likely be a pain in the butt and cause problems with electronic devices, the hope is that in the long run it will save energy. H.R. 6 was signed into law in August 2005 and most of its provisions were implemented at the beginning of 2007.

Answer 2

Pretty boring really - it is for energy savings - we will be able to save money by not having to have the lights on in our houses from the time we get home until we go to bed. We will turn the clocks back one week later than what we have been this fall - the first weekend in November instead of the last weekend in October - all so the kids do not have to be out trick or treating in the dark!!!

Answer 3

Spring ahead, fall back.....

Starting in 2007, daylight time begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. On the second Sunday in March, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time. On the first Sunday in November, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time. These dates were established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. no. 109-58, 119 Stat 594 (2005).

Not all places in the U.S. observe daylight time. In particular, Hawaii and most of Arizona do not use it.

Remember to change the batteries in your smoke detector when you change your clocks....Many fire departments encourage people to change the batteries in their smoke detectors when they change their clocks because Daylight Saving Time provides a convenient reminder. "A working smoke detector more than doubles a person's chances of surviving a home fire," says William McNabb of the Troy Fire Department in Michigan. More than 90 percent of homes in the United States have smoke detectors, but one-third are estimated to have dead or missing batteries.

Answer 4

I heard on the news a few nights ago that they're doing it to try and save some energy.

Answer 5

it is supposed to save on energy consumption because it would mean that there would be more sunlight outside causing people not to need the lights in their house as early

Answer 6

To save energy comsumption. It will last through November this year.

Answer 7

the hot dope in that is March eleventh. The politically properly desirable phase looks to imagine this may keep potential. In a u . s . that operates 24 / 7, i do not understand how this may accomplish something.

Answer 8

because someone likes to let the rest of us know that we are not going to get to do anything that we want to do.....they got the power....it's all bs.....people are up 24/7 now, what conservation is possible with that?