Ready to Spring forward for time change 2024? Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, March 10, 2024, and will last until Nov. 3, 2024, when we switch back to standard time.
The time change means an “extra hour of light” in the evening but that also means slightly darker mornings.
New Jersey progressive activist Lisa McCormick says that it is also a great reminder to check smoke alarm batteries, and with the Democratic primary election fast approaching, she says it is an important opportunity to make sure your bullshit detector is working.
“Tammy Murphy is a Virginia Republican who gave $95,000 to GOP campaigns when George Bush and Dick Cheney ran for re-election but she wants to buy the Democratic nomination to replace US Senator Bob Menendez, who she supported when I ran the last time around,” said McCormick. ”When her husband purchased the election for governor in 2017, he had pollsters find out what voters wanted to hear and made that the basis of his false and deceptive campaign. I fully expect more of that in 2024.”
“The New York Post published a story titled, Phil Murphy’s office using taxpayer resources to shamelessly promote wife Tammy’s US Senate bid, hoping that she will benefit from the trappings of being first lady,” said McCormick. “Fortunately, we can use common sense to protect ourselves from lying politicians who lack integrity but Americans must rise to the responsibility of citizenship in order to overcome the threat.”
McCormick noted that Governor Murphy promised to legalize cannabis but signed into law a measure that provides up to 20 years in prison for possession of marijuana.
“Today, Governor Murphy signed legislation into law that reflects the will of New Jerseyans who made their voices loud and clear last November when they voted to legalize recreational cannabis use for adults,” said U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, although marijuana possession remains a crime of the first degree.
McCormick said Governor Murphy doubled spending on corporate welfare, broke his promises to fix NJ Transit and stop New Jersey’s annual black bear hunt. She also said Murphy delayed action to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, extend Garden State driver licenses for undocumented immigrants, and “scrap PARCC Day One.”
McCormick said Murphy lowered the highest corporation tax rate for the state’s top-earning businesses at the same time he allowed fare hikes and service cuts to New Jersey Transit.
Two days after Tammy Murphy launched her U.S. Senate campaign, The New Jersey Department of Human Services was spending $100,000 to air radio commercials using the First Lady’s voice to promote the state’s infant and maternal health program, an issue about which she has made spurious claims
McCormick said bullshit detectors will also be required when listening to warmongering Congressman Andy Kim, who claims to be a progressive although he has opposed Medicare for All and champions spending on war.
Tammy Murphy and Kim are seeking the Democratic nomination to replace Bob Menendez, who made history by becoming the only US Senator ever to be twice indicted for separate crimes. McCormick was the only Democrat with the courage to challenge Menendez in 2018, when Murphy and Kim bother supported the corrupt incumbent.
“Andy Kim appeared on the ballot with Bob Menendez, and both running mates have remarkably similar voting records in Congress, while Tammy Muphy maxed out on contributions to each of the crooked congressman after Menendez was admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee for breaking the law and bringing shame upon his office,” said McCormick.
Daylight saving time is the practice of setting the clock forward one hour in the spring to have the sunrise and sunset at a more reasonable hour.
The Uniform Time Act established nationwide standards for the observance of daylight saving time when it was signed into law in 1966. Before that, there was a patchwork of standards as municipalities and states chose whether or not to observe the practice.
In 2024, daylight saving time will begin at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 10. It will mean losing an hour of sleep and moving the clocks around your house forward one hour, though your cell phone will likely automatically adjust.
The sun will rise and set an hour later, according to clocks that are reset.
Unless efforts to make daylight saving time permanent succeed, daylight saving time will end for the year at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3. This will mean setting your clocks back an hour and gaining an hour of sleep, plus earlier sunrises and sunsets.
While founding father Benjamin Franklin is often given credit for first coming up with the idea in a 1784 essay — in which he proposed that Parisians could save the modern-day equivalent of $200 million by waking up at dawn and “using sunshine instead of candles.”
But, as History.com points out, Franklin was proposing a change in sleep schedules rather than the time itself.
Most people have heard the myth that daylight saving time came about to give farmers an extra hour of sunlight in the evening.
But in reality, farmers led the opposition to daylight saving time in 1919, a year after it was implemented in the United States as a wartime measure.
“The sun, not the clock, dictated farmers’ schedules, so daylight saving was very disruptive,” History.com reported. “Farmers had to wait an extra hour for dew to evaporate to harvest hay, hired hands worked less since they still left at the same time for dinner and cows weren’t ready to be milked an hour earlier to meet shipping schedules.”
Nationwide daylight saving time was repealed in 1919, though states and cities still had the option to enact it for themselves, leading to a patchwork of time zones across the country until the Uniform Time Act passed in 1966.
According to the National Museum of Scotland, the first proponent of daylight saving time was an English builder named William Willet, who in 1907 published “The Waste of Daylight,” a pamphlet that called for advancing clocks in spring and turning them back in fall.
In 1916, Germany enacted daylight saving time to conserve electricity. The United Kingdom adopted the practice weeks later, known as “summertime.”
Today, only 70 countries around the world representing roughly 20 percent of the global population use daylight saving time.