For most Americans, daylight saving time ends in 2010 at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 7, when most states fall back to standard time. Time will spring forword again on March 13, 2011, when daylight saving time resumes.
The U.S. Federal government doesn't reuire U.S states or territories to abserve daylight saving time, which is why residents of Anizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Marianas Island, won't need to turn back their clocks this weekend.
Where it is observed, daylight savings has been known to cause some problems. The National Sureys by Ramussen reports for example show that 83 percent of respondents knew when to move their clocks ahead in spring 2010. Twenly seven percent thought, admitted they hadn't changed their clocks correctly.
Should Daylight Saving Time End: There have all kinds of debate regarding this. Some are saying, it is time to end daylight saving time. The time change increases traffic accidents, confuses international scheduling, reduces employee productivity, and causes wasted effort. In Canada alone over a million person hours were wasted on Sunday with people changing the time on their alarm clocks, watches, wall clocks, Microwaves, cellphones, TVs,Cars. Daylight savings time was introduced to trim an hour off the use of interior lighting back in World War 1 when electric lights were the main uses of household electricity and the power was needed for the war time factories. This war is over, so too daylight saving time.
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