WASHINGTON — Time to set the clock forward by an hour. Also, you can heat up the grill and break out the badminton set: Daylight-saving time is returning to shift an hour of light to the evenings.
That means push the clocks ahead _ spring forward _ before going to bed Saturday night. The official change occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday, local time.
Daylight-saving time ends Nov. 1.
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This is useless and dangerous. A study some years ago showed increases in vehicle collisions in the days following both spring and fall time changes.
There is no good reason to continue this practice.
Exactly!! this practice is useless and dysfunctional!!! I HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what a waste. why do we do this?
i don't need it to be light out until 10pm during the summer and dark by 4:30pm during the winter.
why don't the time keepers just split the difference and put each US continental time zone on a year around basis of one half 1/2 hour (30 minutes) ahead of current "standard" time (or, conversely, 1/2 hour behind daylight savings time). with this one time only change, 11:30 pm standard time and 12:30 am daylight savings time become the new 12 midnight. no more having to change clocks twice a year or losing sleep. the only negative would be the need to correct computer programs, but microsoft has plenty of money to do a re-write.
Why do we still do this? I've heard some bs about 1% energy savings, but I don't buy it. This is just a collective exercise in making the populace exhausted for a week. We're trained sheep for going along with this.
Crap. :(
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