Tis That Time Again!

Daylight Savings Time 2010 began this morning at 2:00 a.m. and you need to remember to set your clocks forward by one hour. Remember the old adage about Daylight Savings Time: "Spring Forward, Fall Back" and you will get it correct for Daylight Savings Time 2010.

It would seem that this whole Daylight Savings Time 2010 was created just to confuse as many people as possible and make sure that twice a year we are late, or early, to our offices on Monday morning. It seem a little silly that for Daylight Savings Time every fall we gain an hour of time as we move our clocks back, and every spring we lose an hour of time as we move our clocks forward. But Daylight Savings Time is not about just confusing us and our calendars and clocks.

No, Daylight Savings Time was actually started to save energy in the US, by extending daylight hours between April and October, during World War I so that the energy saved could be used by the production lines. In 1966 the Uniform Time Act was passed by Congress that required all states to recognize and standardize the length Daylight Standard Time.