By Grace Moody, For The Miami Student
This Sunday, March 8, at 2 a.m., Daylight Saving Time forces us to move our clocks forward an hour.
A large business affected by this time change each year is the bar industry. According to WebExhibit's "Daylight Saving Time," state law restricts many bars from serving alcohol between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. This raises one common question among the student body: can bars serve alcohol in the hour the time reverts back?
"Other states solve the problem by saying that liquor can be served until 'two hours after midnight.' In practice, however, many establishments stay open an extra hour in the fall," WebExhibit wrote.
Daylight Saving Time, a concept credited to Benjamin Franklin around the end of World War I, was established to make the best use of the daylight hours, according to Fred Espenak's article, "Daylight Saving Time" on NASA's official website. It was President Lyndon Johnson who then signed the law of Daylight Saving Time into initiation in 1966. This began the official start of Daylight Saving Time on the last Sunday of April and the end on the last Sunday in October.
As of 2007, however, this law was changed to the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November. It was signed by former president George W. Bush in 2005, and was initiated two years later, in 2007. According to NASA, this change was made in order to extend Daylight Saving Time by four weeks.
Daylight Saving Time is a law that is passed individually, by state. Arizona and Hawaii are the only states that do not participate in Daylight Saving Time.
In order to prevent the day from switching back to yesterday, Daylight Saving Time takes place at 2 a.m., according to WebExhibit's "Daylight Saving Time."
This time was also originally chosen because most people were at home and few trains were running at this time. Clocks will jump from 1:59 a.m. to 3 a.m. this Sunday night.
"It is late enough to minimally affect bars and restaurants," the website stated. "It is early enough that the entire continental U.S. switches by daybreak."
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