{"id":185368,"date":"2024-10-27T21:05:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T02:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=185368"},"modified":"2024-10-27T21:05:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T02:05:49","slug":"time-change-occurs-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/10\/27\/time-change-occurs-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Time change occurs this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people don\u2019t mind it, others don\u2019t care for it, but it doesn\u2019t matter \u2013 this weekend is when we \u201cfall back\u201d one hour to to Eastern Standard Time. The time change will officially occur at 2 a.m. Sunday, November 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except for Arizona, Hawaii and several U.S. territories, Daylight Saving Time begins each year on the second Sunday in March when clocks are set forward by one hour. They are turned back to standard time on the first Sunday in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of states, including Ohio, have passed legislation or introduced bills to abolish the twice-a-year time change, however, approval at the federal level is needed to permit such action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daylight saving time was originally enacted in 1918 to help save energy by giving more daylight in the evening hours, but it was repealed in 1919 then brought back during World War II. The Uniform Time Act was introduced in 1966 and became law that same year. Due to the energy crisis, year-round daylight saving time was used in 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some studies have called into question the degree of energy savings. Other studies have shown negative impacts on people\u2019s health, including cardiac problems because of time changes, along with a higher number of automobile accidents and workplace injuries in the days after a time change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff Some people don\u2019t mind it, others don\u2019t care for it, but it doesn\u2019t matter \u2013 this weekend is when we \u201cfall back\u201d one hour to to Eastern Standard Time. The time change will officially occur at 2 a.m. Sunday, November 3. Except for Arizona, Hawaii and several U.S. territories, Daylight Saving Time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 16:23:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185369,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185368\/revisions\/185369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}