THE SHOALS-So you are not looking forward to the losing an extra hour of sleep on Sunday morning due to the fact the “SPRING” portion of Daylight Savings Time is going to kick in. We here at The Quad-Cities Daily thought you might like a few weird and strange facts about DST. 
Daylight Savings Time was formally implemented during World War I in a coordinated effort to minimize coal consumption. The implementation was repealed during the peace time in between World War I and World War II. The policy was adopted again during the second war effort.
Some people just continually get off easy in life. Since Arizona and Hawaii don’t recognize or celebrate the time change, they never have to update their microwaves, stoves, or alarm clocks. But hey, they also will not have that extra hour to sleep in come this Sunday.
Most countries near the equator don’t deviate from standard time.
Ben Franklin gets credit for thinking up the idea of daylight saving time, albeit with his trademark wit. As ambassador to Paris, Franklin wrote a letter to the Journal of Paris in 1784 of his “discovery” that the sun gives light as soon as it rises, and needling Parisians for their night-owl, candle-burning ways.
Since that time, Congress has expanded the length of daylight saving time three times, once in the 1970s during the country’s energy crisis, once in the 1980s, when April got brought under the daylight saving umbrella, and finally in 2007. Today, daylight saving time encompasses March into November.
China, which spans five time zones, is always eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and it does not observe DST.
. According to The American Journal of Cardiology there is a spike in heart attack activity the Monday after we “Spring Forward.” When it comes to this week when we lose an hour of sleep better not blow off your trip to the gym.
In 2005 President Bush signs the Energy Policy Act of 2005 into law. Part of the act will extend Daylight Saving Time starting in 2007, from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.
An oil embargo by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries led Congress to enact a test period of year-round daylight-saving time in 1974 and 1975. The test period was controversial; it ended after complaints that the dark winter mornings endangered children traveling to school. The U.S. returned to summer daylight-saving time in 1975.
Some countries refer to “Daylight Saving Time” as “Summer Time.” Let us hope this holds true because we really need a little sunshine, summertime, warm weather about now this winter has been a real “Polar Vortex” of a winter.
So spring forward everyone. Summertime is nigh.
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People are so illogical who complain about losing a measly hour of sleep like they never traveled or stayed up late for any occasion. Pure and simple evening daylight is better for activities to commuting to using less lights. If anything we need to stop setting clocks back in the fall and even consider going forward another hour. What is the point to morning light except a few jobs when most are indoor anyways. The arguments of it being some ancient unnecessary tradition to causing more sleep problems to saying its for the children (dark even before hour forward) are reaching and are from people who need to reevaluate their lives, the same people who likely party up til 3am then can’t function the next few days so they blame the hour forward. Realistically any little deviation from a routine can cause a sleep disturbance leading to feeling a bit tired the next day. Has nothing to do with the fake loss of an hour. Nothing beats that warm 9pm+ light summer feeling opposed to jump off a cliff 4:15 winter prison.