Department of Energy report released in 2008 put electricity savings due to the extended daylight saving time in 2007 at 0.03 percent. The idea was that it would save an estimated 300,000 barrels of oil, among other energy-saving bonuses. The law didn’t really extend the day in a 24-hour economy, even if it did shift the daylight. Starting in 2007, daylight saving time bumped from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March in the spring and from the last Sunday in October to the first Sunday in November in the fall. The Energy Policy Act of 2015 included a provision that extended daylight saving time by four or five weeks, depending on the year. OK, so we’re always going to have later sunsets and darker mornings, out here on the western edge of the time zone, than they do on the East Coast – or even than those just across the state line in Illinois, where the Central time zone begins.īut waking up to this particular week always feels a bit cruel. The length of daylight saving time – especially when it leaves the morning rush to school pitch black – is another matter.
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