Learn American Holidays Daylight Saving Time begins
hi everyone I’m Alisha daylight saving
time begins in the United States in the
second week of March it’s not a holiday
in the normal sense of the word but it
does mark the beginning of the time of
year when the afternoons last longer and
when people enjoy more light later in
the evening daylight saving time is
about saving power but there are other
reasons for it as well
can you guess what some of them might be
we’ll show you the answer at the end of
this video
daylight saving time dates back to the
days of World War one it was originally
intended as a way to save energy the
logic behind it was that because people
would have more daylight to work with
they would have to burn less fuel to
light factories houses and so forth the
beginning of daylight saving time is
usually a bit more traumatic for people
than the ending of daylight saving time
in November because everybody’s clocks
are one hour ahead most people end up
losing one full hour of sleep at night
this means a lot of tardiness at work a
lot of drowsy people on the roads and
other hazards daylight saving time was
extended by the Energy Policy Act of
2005
this means that daylight saving time
always starts on the second Sunday of
March and ends on the first Sunday of
November of course this does not apply
to the many states that do not
participate in daylight saving time at
all
in northern latitudes the effects of
daylight saving time are more pronounced
than they are in southern latitudes in
the northernmost parts of the
continental United States summer
Twilight can last until as late as ten
o’clock p.m. due to setting the clocks
forward in March and now here’s the
answer to the quiz do you know other
reasons for daylight saving time another
reason that daylight saving time was
extended to the first Sunday in November
is actually one of the biggest holidays
in the u.s. Halloween some members of
Congress determined that extending
daylight saving time past Halloween
would make it more fun for children to
go out trick-or-treating due to the
extended daylight hours how has this
lesson did you learn something
interesting do you observe daylight
saving time in your country please leave
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you