Remember to turn your clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday as daylight saving time ends. It can’t hurt to also eyeball your cellphone and computer to make sure they’ve updated as well.
That’s right, you get an extra hour of sleep this weekend.
Of course, not everyone in the U.S. recognizes this twice-annual ritual: Daylight saving time is not observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or most of Arizona. (The Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona recognizes it.)
Even with the extra time to snooze, fewer people are fans of the clock-changing ritual. According to a recent Rasmussen Reports survey, 37% of Americans think the time change is worth the hassle, down from 45% last year.
The “spring forward” and “fall back” practice was first implemented to save energy.
Benjamin Franklin (“early to bed and early to rise”) endorsed time change to save money on candles, and troops in World War I followed suit to save on coal.
