Originally posted on April 2, 2006 @ 12:21 am
Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2 am on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2 am on the last Sunday of October.
Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time is extended one month and begins for most of the United States at 2 am on the Second Sunday in March to 2 am on the First Sunday of November.
The new starts and stop dates were set in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Daylight Saving Time – for the U.S. and its territories – is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and by most of Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona).
Indiana, which used to be split with a portion of the state observing DST and the other half not, is now whole. In the past, counties in the Eastern Time Zone portion of the state did not observe DST. They were on standard time year round. A state law was passed in 2005 that has the entire state of Indiana observing DST beginning in April 2006.
Indiana isn’t the only state that wanted to change daylight saving time. California asked for federal “approval” to move to a “year-round” Daylight Saving Time in 2001-2002 because of its energy crisis.
On that note, don’t forget to set your clocks ahead at 2 am.