As it is with every other city in the United States of America, the Chicago time has also been changed with the effective implementation of the daylight savings time. The time change that has taken place this year on the fourteenth, which is today, took effect in the morning hours after midnight and the time will go according to the new schedule for another eight months after which it will come to an end on the 7th of November. Chicago time has been changed and all official and public clocks have been moved an hour ahead.
The Chicago time change will be short handed as CDT which stands for the Central Daylight Time as compared to the otherwise CST which stood for the Central Standard Time. The idea behind the time change is to save energy bills and imports by reducing the consumption of electricity. The main way in which this purpose is achieved is that since there are more hours of daylight in a day, more can be done with the lights off meaning that the lights will come on at a later time in the day and be kept on for a shorter duration throughout the summers.
You might think what difference it makes if you switch your lights on later in the day but think about this, millions of people around America will be doing the same and when you add one kilowatt to the next and then to the next you eventually end up saving a lot of electricity which counts into thousands of megawatts. Although people argue that since there is more sunlight the use of air-conditioning also goes up bringing the bill to the same amount and I would agree with that if there weren’t the factor of saving-some-electricity-is-better-than-saving-none.
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