Tag: Daylight Saving Time

  • The states are making daylight saving time permanent.

    The states are making daylight saving time permanent.

    The US has passed a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent in the country by 2022. The American Daylight Saving Time Act of March 4th, 2020 allows the country to observe daylight Saving Time for 34 weeks in the year 2022, keeping the’standard time’ in effect for a small portion of the year.

  • Daylight Saving Time will not be made permanent by Congress.

    Daylight Saving Time will not be made permanent by Congress.

    The beginning of daylight Saving Time (DST) in the US has been observed on March 1. It began on the first Sunday of March and ends on the last Sunday of October. Daylight Saving Time became permanent in 1974 after President Richard Nixon signed it into law. Schools delayed start times until the sun came…

  • Congress isn’t going to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.

    Congress isn’t going to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.

    Daylight Saving Time (DST) is observed by the United States as well as other countries. In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act which established daylight saving time. Franklin suggested Paris could save millions of pounds of candlewax every year if residents woke up early and went to bed early at night, according to US’…