History of Daylight Savings
This U.S. presdent is credited with proposing the idea of daylight savings time.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This is what daylight savings time aims to maximize in terms of natural phenomena.
What is sunlight during the day?
This popular outdoor sport benefits from extended evening daylight.
What is golf?
This fun tradition, children gather in Washington D.C. on the White House lawn to roll eggs across the grass with wooden spoons, competing to see who can cross the finish line first.
What is the White House Easter egg roll?
These two wars influenced the adoption of daylight savings.
What is World War I & II?
This pattern is impacted by daylight savings time.
What are sleep patterns?
This major U.S. city famously experimented with permanent daylight savings time in the 1970s.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This is celebrated in the United States of America, Canada, Australia, and throughout Europe as a symbolic representation of springtime.
What is May Day?
This was the year the U.S. formally adopted daylight savings time nationwide.
What is 1966?
This hormone, responsible for regulating sleep, is affected by changes in daylight.
What is Melatonin?
This was the year the U.S. briefly extend daylight savings time for the sake of energy conservation.
What is 1974- The Energy Crisis?
This is the festival of colors.
What is Holi?
These two U.S. states do not observe daylight savings time
What is Hawaii and Arizona?
This is the scientific term for the body's internal clock that regulates sleep and wake cycles.
What is the circadian rhythm?
This famous festival is Nevada operates on "playa time," ignoring standard time rules altogether.
What is Burning Man?
This is the day for many Americans that springtime is ending and that summer is soon ending.
What is Memorial Day?