Sunday, March 12, 2017, 2:00:00 am
clocks are turned forward 1 hour to 3:00am
Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour later starting on
Mar 12, 2017 than the day before and
ending November 5th 2017
There will be more light in the evening
Also called Spring Forward, Summer Time, and Daylight Savings Time.
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Sunday, March 12th
2:00am to 3:00am
(The exceptions to DST are Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.)
Credit for Daylight Saving Time belongs to Benjamin Franklin, who first suggested the idea in 1784. The idea was revived in 1907, when William Willett, an Englishman, proposed a similar system in the pamphlet The Waste of Daylight.
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