Make sure not to forget to set your clocks back an hour as Daylight Savings Time in the USA (California and New York included) kicks in on November 2 at 2 a.m. this year.
While your home clocks will be needing some manual adjusting at least your beloved smartphones will adjust automatically.
But what is Daylight Savings Time in the first place and is it still a big deal in modern times?
According to CNN, Daylight Savings Time may not be such a big deal anymore based on poll reports that a lot of people just prefer to stick to the same time year-round although there are still the more traditional ones who enjoy the ritual of changing the clocks.
As an additional backgrounder, CNN reports that "the US government started moving into and out of "Daylight Saving Time" during World War I to copy the Germans, who said they were doing it to save fuel. When the war ended, the U.S. government wisely repealed the law since it proved unpopular. During WWII, it came back - again with the notion that it would somehow conserve resources. After the second war, the U.S. converted factories from making bombs to making cars and consumer products. The GIs came home. But Daylight Saving Time just stuck around."
Heavy reports that unlike in the rest of the United States, Arizona doesn't really observe Daylight Saving Time. Actually, it's been 40 years since they last made use of it. Hawaii is on the same page as Arizona of not feeling the need for Daylight Saving Time while there's a bill in Alabama which prefers to keep the Daylight Saving Time year round. Meanwhile, Utah and Nebraska are already considering of dropping it.
This shows the obvious split of opinions with regard to Daylight Saving Time in this day and age.
It is possible that people are starting to drop the practice of Daylight Saving Time due to recent researches which say that it does not really help reduce energy but in fact, increases the demand for electricity.
However, this does not mean that Daylight Saving Time has never served its purpose since being introduced in World War I. It's just that things are way different now. The world has changed, most specifically, the demand for energy. From charging our mobile devices to lighting in the home, there's not much that Daylight Saving Time can do to minimize this demand.
