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When Does Daylight Saving Begin?

Daylight Saving Time 2011 starts at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 13, when we spring forward an hour. Time will fall back to Standard Time again on Sunday, November 6, 2011.

Ever wonder why we do use Daylight Saving Time in the first place? Here's a few historical tidbits about the time change.

How and When Did Daylight Saving Time Start?

Ben Franklin—of "early to bed and early to rise" fame—was apparently the first person to suggest the concept of daylight savings.

While serving as U.S. ambassador to France, Franklin wrote of being awakened at 6:00 a.m. and realizing, that the sun rose far earlier than he did. He wrote to a newspaper about the subject, saying "Imagine the resources that might be saved if he and others rose before noon and burned less midnight oil."

In order to reduce artificial lighting and save coal for the war effort, Germany became the first to use daylight savings on a large scale during World War I. Other countries were soon to follow suit.

In 1918 the U.S. passed a federal law which standardized the daylight savings concept, for the states who observed it. During World War II the U.S. made daylight saving time mandatory for the whole country, as a way to save wartime resources, and from 1942 to 1945 daylight saving time was observed year-round.

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