United States begins Daylight Saving Time on Sunday clocks need to spring forward one hour

Time zone is changing today in United States of America.Daylight Saving Time DST begins today March 14, 2021, at 2:00 A.M.  On Saturday evening, all American's clocks need to spring forward one hour. Yes! See details about the history of “saving daylight” and why we still observe DST today?

What Is Daylight Saving Time (DST)?


Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the practice of moving the clocks forward one hour from Standard Time during the summer months, and changing them back again in the winters. The general idea is that this allows us all to make better use of natural daylight. However, DST has many detractors and rightfully so.When Is Daylight Saving Time This Year? When Does the Time Change?


Well! To remember which way to set their clocks, folks often use the expression, “Spring forward, fall back.” these dates are for locations in the United States and Canada only,but other countries may follow different dates.


Is it Daylight “Saving” or “Savings” Time?

The correct term is “Daylight Saving Time“ and not “Daylight Savings Time” (with an extra “s”), though many of us are guilty of saying it the wrong way. The technical explanation is that the word “saving” is singular because it acts as part of an adjective rather than a verb.some will think why grammatically s is using here.?The answer is already given.

If we talk about its history the first question comes in our mind that Why Did Daylight Saving Time Start? 

Blame Ben? Benjamin Franklin’s “An Economical Project,” written in 1784, is the earliest known proposal to “save” daylight. It was whimsical in tone, advocating laws to compel citizens to rise at the crack of dawn to save the expense of candlelight.

The first true proponent of Daylight Saving Time was an Englishman named William Willet. A London builder, he conceived the idea while riding his horse early one morning in 1907. He noticed that the shutters of houses were tightly closed even though the Sun had risen. In “The Waste of Daylight,” the manifesto of his personal light-saving campaign, Willet wrote, “Everyone appreciates the long, light evenings. Everyone laments their shrinkage as the days grow shorter; and nearly everyone has given utterance to a regret that the nearly clear, bright light of an early morning during Spring and Summer months is so seldom seen or used… . That so many as 210 hours of daylight are, to all intents and purposes, wasted every year is a defect in our civilization. Let England recognize and remedy it.”

Daylight Saving Time Dates

Year Daylight Saving Time Begins Daylight Saving Time Ends

2021 Sunday, March 14 at 2:00 A.M. Sunday, November 7 at 2:00 A.M.

2022 Sunday, March 13 at 2:00 A.M. Sunday, November 6 at 2:00 A.M.

2023 Sunday, March 12 at 2:00 A.M. Sunday, November 5 at 2:00 A.M.

2024 Sunday, March 10 at 2:00 A.M. Sunday, November 3 at 2:00 A.M.