New Energy Law Adds One Month of Daylight-Saving Time

The new energy law signed by President Bush Monday will add four weeks of daylight-saving time beginning in 2007, news services reported.

The law calls for DST to begin three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and be extended by a week to the first Sunday in November, the Associated Press reported.

The change to one additional month of DST was less than the two months that Congress had originally considered. ( Click here for previous coverage.)

Sponsors of the proposal said it will save energy because people won't have to turn their lights on as early in the evening but some, such as farmers, were concerned about the change, complaining the time change adversely affects livestock, disrupting feeding and milking schedules, AP said.

The electronics industry is making plans on how to deal with the impact of everything from home video recorders to adjusting digital clocks on cell phones, AP reported.

The DST schedule was last changed in 1987.

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