Daylight Saving Time to End Nov. 4, One Week Later Than Last Year
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation
Oct 27, 2007 - 11:23:45 AM
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The U.S. Department of Transportation issued a reminder today that daylight
saving time will end at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4, one week later than in
recent years.
Prior to this year, daylight saving time has been observed
from the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. As a result of
legislation enacted by Congress in 2005, beginning this year daylight saving
time begins the second Sunday of March and ends the first Sunday of November.
When daylight saving time ends, clocks will be set back one hour,
providing an additional hour of daylight in the morning.
Federal law does
not require any area to observe daylight saving time. But if a state chooses to
observe daylight saving time, it must follow the starting and ending dates set
by the law. In those parts of the country that do not observe daylight time, no
resetting of clocks is required. Those states and territories include Arizona,
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern
Marianas.
Daylight saving time is a change in the standard time of each
time zone. Time zones were first used in the United States in 1883 by the
railroads to standardize their schedules. In 1918, Congress made the railroad
zones official under federal law and assigned the responsibility for any changes
that might be needed to the Interstate Commerce Commission. In the Uniform Time
Act of 1966, Congress established uniform dates for daylight saving time and
transferred responsibility for the time laws to the U.S. Department of
Transportation.
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