With the start of daylight saving time, summer begins and the nights get longer.
When it occurs, most Americans will have to adjust their clocks forward one hour in order to ensure that the time read is accurate – but when do they do it?
The clocks will change when Daylight savings time begins in 2022?
Americans will then have to change their clocks back an hour starting on Sunday, November 6, 2022.
Cellphones should adapt to DST and change on their own.
When daylight saving time begins, why do the clocks advance?
Clocks “spring” forward so people can get as much daylight and sun as possible.
“DST is a seasonal time change measure where clocks are set ahead of standard time during part of the year, usually by one hour,” Time and Date explains.
“As DST starts, the Sun rises and sets later on the clock than the day before.”
The only states within the United States that do not follow DST are Hawaii and Arizona due to their unique climates.
How did daylight saving time come about?
George Hudson, a New Zealand resident, came up with the idea for daylight saving time in 1895.
“He proposed a two-hour time shift so he’d have more after-work hours of sunshine to go bug hunting in the summer,” according to National Geographic.
Somehow, Coldplay’s Chris Martin is also part of the unusual origin story.
William Willett, Martin’s great-great-grandfather, “independently” came up with a similar idea while horseback riding in the early part of the 20th century, the media outlet reports.
He proposed it to England’s Parliament, with support from Winston Churchill and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
His proposal was rejected by the British government, and Willett died in 1915, however, his idea was brought up again during World War I – by Germany.
“They remembered Willett’s idea of moving the clock forward and thus having more daylight during working hours,” says author David Prerau.
“While the British were talking about it year after year, the Germans decided to do it more or less by fiat.”
Other countries followed and the US Congress enacted its first daylight savings law in 1918.
