Can you believe this coming weekend is the last one in October. Our astronomer, Joe Rao, pointed out on his Facebook page last night that this coming Sunday morning would also once have been the time we turned the clocks back to Standard Time.
Prior to 2007, when the Energy Act of 2005 took effect, we used to “fall back” during the final weekend of October, and “spring forward” during the first week of April. Now, we begin Daylight Saving Time during the second week in March and end it during the first week of November.
In our 2007 edition, we published a campaign called How Much Daylight are We Really Saving? In it, we questioned both the former and new DST dates and proposed a new system we thought would work better.
Give it a look and see what you think. Do you prefer the new DST schedule, the old one, or something completely different?
Jaime McLeod is the Web Content Editor for the Farmers' Almanac. She is a longtime journalist who has written for a wide variety of newspapers, magazines, and websites, including MTV.com. She enjoys the outdoors, loves eating organic food, and is interested in all aspects of natural wellness.
If you notice a hole in the upper left-hand corner of your Farmers' Almanac, don't return it to the store! That hole isn't a defect; it's a part of history. Starting with the first edition of the Farmers' Almanac in 1818, readers used to nail holes into the corners to hang it up in their homes, barns, and outhouses (to provide both reading material and toilet paper). In 1910, the Almanac's publishers began pre-drilling holes in the corners to make it even easier for readers to keep all of that invaluable information (and paper) handy.
2 comments
November 3, Aaron.
When do we have to set our clocks back this year? I think its November 11th right? (EST)
I prefer the old one. Setting them foward in April then setting them back just before halloween. I just feel early March is too early to spring foward
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