(KNSI) – Millions of people are looking forward to an extra hour of sleep this weekend. Daylight saving ends on Sunday when 48 states sets their clocks back an hour. Arizona and Hawaii are the only states that don’t take part.
That means it’ll be dark in most places by 5 p.m. on Monday. Not everyone’s happy about it, though.
A report in USA Today says in the past four years, 19 states have passed resolutions or enacted legislation that would make daylight saving year-round, if Congress would allow it.
Those states are Minnesota, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Idaho, Louisiana, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah, Wyoming, Arkansas, Delaware, Maine, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, Florida and California.
According to Dustin Buehler, general counsel for Oregon’s governor on the New York Times podcast the argument, Franklin wrote a letter to the authors of the Journal of Paris suggesting regions could save millions on candles. If they would switch clocks back it became serious in 1918 is a wartime effort to save an hour’s worth of fuel either gas or oil each day to light lamps and coal to heat homes. It was repealed nationwide the following year and in 1966, the uniform Time Act made Daylight Saving Time consistent nationwide.
Over 70 countries worldwide observe daylight saving time.
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