So many are confused, in fact, that "when daylight savings time 2010 'is one of the main Google search this morning.
In 2007, the U.S. changed the time to "break" from the last Sunday in October to first Sunday in November. Halloween aside, this seems even more confusing if you look online and see all the talks about turning the clocks back this morning. Do not be confused. These bloggers are across the pond in the EU.
DST has a more turbulent history than you can expect, and this is not the first time that the dates have changed. Also known as "summer time" in the UK and "time of war" during World War II, the seasonal time change was a sensitive political issue for most of the century 20.
U.S. unless legally directed first winter daylight hours in 1918 with "Act to preserve daylight and provide standard time for the United States." After the end of the First World War, was repealed the law as law, and became the summer time a local option.
This created much confusion throughout the U.S., but the government did not back the law until President Franklin Roosevelt renamed it "War Time" in 1942. Again, in 1945, the law was repealed and daylight saving time became a local option until 1966, when the Uniform Time Act, daylight saving time finally a permanent feature of U.S. law.
Even then, Americans dates set their clocks back and forth have changed repeatedly over the years. After the 1973 energy crisis, President Nixon moved the summer time forward until the end of January for two years before the public revolted and the start date of April was restored. Back in 2005, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 established that the dates may change. This time the completion date has been changed from the last Sunday in October to first Sunday in November starting in 2007.
So while you have been moving our clocks the first Sunday in November four years ago, 2010 is the first year that the last Sunday is also the 31st of the month, so it seems especially later this year.
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