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Colorado Daylight savings — when do we change our clocks?
Daylight Savings 2009 in Colorado
It’s that time of the year again, Daylight savings goes into affect next Sunday, November 1st
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The U.S. begins Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00 a.m. local time on the second Sunday in March and reverts to Standard Time at 2:00
a.m. on the first Sunday in November.
Here’s some facts
- Daylight Savings time is not observed in: Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and Arizona. The Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, even in Arizona, due to its large size and location in three states.
- The official name is Daylight Saving NOT Daylight Savings.
History Tidbits about Daylight Saving Time
- Benjamin Franklin is thought to have come up with the idea for daylight-saving time in 1784. In a whimsical letter to a French journal, he said that Parisians could save thousands of francs a years by waking up earlier during the summer because it would prevent them from having to buy so many candles to light the evening hours.
- It originally was started during World War One to save fuel by decreasing the use of artificial lighting in homes and workplaces. Although some people still observed Daylight Saving Time between World War One and World War Two, it was not officially observed nationally again until the beginning of World War Two.
It’s time to fall back
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