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Featured on Snopes today: The origins of Daylight Saving Time, flu shot misinformation debunked, and accusations that the Trump family "stole" from a children's cancer charity.
by Snopes Staff, March 13, 2019
Daylight Saving Time (DST) officially ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, at which time clocks and watches are to be set back one hour, to standard time, until DST resumes on March 8, 2020. These biannual rituals were written into U.S. law in 1966.
Why, exactly, do we fiddle with moving our clocks forward and back an hour twice a year? Snopes.com’s David Mikkelson explains.
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By Snopes Staff
April 3, 2005
Why do we fiddle with moving our clocks forward and back one hour twice a year?
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Oct. 31, 2019
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Nov. 1, 2019
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Nov. 1, 2019
The production of hemp was once encouraged by the United States government.
March 13, 2019
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has proposed a number of ideas to combat global warming.
