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Daylight Time
URL: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.html

Description:
As of 2005 daylight time begins "on the first Sunday in April and ends on the last Sunday in October. ... These dates were recently modified with the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. ... Starting in March 2007, daylight time ... will begin on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November." Includes a brief history of daylight saving time in the U.S. From the U.S. Naval Observatory, Astronomical Applications Department.

LII Topics: Daylight Saving Time, Holidays and Observances Individually, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Science, Time

Publisher:
U.S. Naval Observatory, Astronomical Applications Department

Extra Keywords
standard time

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Daylight saving
Time -- Systems and standards -- United States

LII Database Information:
Record 19423 created by Maria Brandt on 10/24/2005
Last modification on 03/02/2008
Published: 10/26/2005  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19423

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