Early To Bed And Early To Rise Saves Electricity

For two decades, Daylight Saving Time has begun on the first Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October. It wasn’t always so. Though subject to a higher power in most realms, time must also obey Congress.

And so, at 2 a.m. Sunday, it will spring forward one hour. Come fall, at 2 a.m. on Oct. 29 to be exact, people who want to be in sync with their neighbors will move their clocks back an hour.

But next year, things will change again. To save energy, Congress decreed that in 2007, clocks will be moved ahead earlier and back later to add three weeks of Daylight Saving Time.

This is hardly the first time Congress has messed with time itself. In the 1970s, the U.S. Department of Transportation calculated that the nation uses 1 percent less energy when Daylight Saving Time is in effect.

In 1974, during the Arab oil embargo and the energy crisis, Daylight Saving Time began on Jan. 6. The next year, it began on Feb. 23. Congress has changed the timing of the switch-over at least twice since then.

To add to the confusion, not every state uses Daylight Saving Time. Hawaii doesn’t believe in it. Nor does Arizona, although some American Indian reservations there observe it.

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