Daylight Saving Time 2012: Change Your Clocks!

WASHINGTON (AP) — As if you weren't already sleep deprived, you'll get an hour less shuteye Saturday night no matter what time you turn out the lights.

At 2 a.m. local time Sunday, daylight saving time, that harbinger of spring, arrives with the promise of longer, light-filled days well into the evening.

Turn that clock ahead — remember, spring forward — before heading to bed Saturday night to avoid the panic of rising later than you think.

Not every place makes the switch, though. Hawaii, Arizona outside the Navajo Indian territories, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas stay on standard time, which returns for the rest of us Nov. 4, two days before election time.

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Comments

[Iatros78]

05:53 PM on 03/11/2012

Don't change your clocks. Daylight savings time is just the Big Government nanny state trying to control our lives! Americans should be free to conceive of time in whatever way they want without the government intruding on our lives. There was no Daylight Savings Time when our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution!

[niumarmion]

02:17 PM on 03/11/2012

If they pushed the clocks forward on Monday afternoons, there would be less traffic accidents due to fatigue, but it would also cut into the profits of the 1%.

[Downrivers]

01:37 PM on 03/11/2012

DST....Talk about government over-reach..

[Klytemnestra]

01:25 PM on 03/11/2012

I've never had much of a problem dealing with springing forward or falling back. I suppose I just deal with it in the same way I deal with the timezone difference when I travel. The body just gets used to it. Personally I like the extra daylight hours after work. It's nice to go for a walk or a hike when it's still sunny out. And I love sitting on a patio having dinner and drinks with friends on a sunny evening.

[evilkittiebaby]

01:31 AM on 03/12/2012

I don't think its the time change that affects people. It's the hype that the media causes that brainwashes and freaks out the people that read it. If people can't work right over losing 1 hr of sleep for 1 day they might as well lock themselves up now lol

and I like daylight saving too. Makes things seem like its going by quicker.

[Exfl]

11:59 AM on 03/11/2012

I have finally figured out why conservatives hate daylight savings time. Rotating those big stone sundials hurts their backs.

[Beatnikcafe]

12:24 PM on 03/11/2012

Lol.

[Cleat Edmonson]

11:49 AM on 03/11/2012

Where I am in Mexico they stick to Arizona time... but on the Baja side of the Sea of Cortez they follow daylight savings but a couple of weeks later!! Listen to the shortwave nets in the morning gets really confusing... who are you talking to and where are they??? What time is it really??? This seems strange to those of us brought up in Arizona and now cruising in Mexico at this time of year. It's a good thing I no longer wear a watch.

[Rosemary Hirsch]

11:15 AM on 03/11/2012

I hate changing clocks, "fall back an hour in the fall, spring an hour ahead for the spring." Tell that to my computerized clocks. I have to take my car to the auto shop for the clock to be changed an hour ahead. Let's go back to using sun dials.

[Absolute]

11:09 AM on 03/11/2012

I hate this time of year. It takes me about 2 weeks to adjust to the time change. Dayum, I sound like my grandmother.

[c1n9r6v3]

10:50 AM on 03/11/2012

_So, this now makes me 12 hours ahead of Eastern, 13 hours ahead of Central,
14 hours ahead of Mountain, 15 hours ahead of Pacific and 16 hours ahead of Alaska.
Fortunately for me, I don't have to set no clock back
and forth...because there ain't no daylight to be saved here. ` *l.o.l.* ☺_

[ennui the third]

10:40 AM on 03/11/2012

I am going to change my clock back twenty years, or maybe ahead fifteen years, or in other words, time is what you make it.

[niumarmion]

10:37 AM on 03/11/2012

Too bad they don't push the clocks forward on Monday afternoons. I guess that would be less money for the 1%.

[vguildrob]

10:31 AM on 03/11/2012

Love that we don't play ball in AZ.

[Roommate]

10:31 AM on 03/11/2012

What is the point of daylight savings? Not turning on the light bulb for one hour saves less than one penny. Why do we go though all this trouble to save less an a penny?

[Soldier79]

03:31 PM on 03/11/2012

it from a long time ago, years before we were born and will most likely continue years after we die.

http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/Daylight-Saving-142110043.html

[farhanislam1999]

10:25 AM on 03/11/2012

Nooo!!! this means going to sleep 1 hour befor and 1 hour less people.

[Janzee12000]

10:21 AM on 03/11/2012

Messed up! All my life I've done my part and set the clocks forward the night before because, like all of you, I didn't want to be late for anything the next day. Now, I use my cell for most things + to wake me up. Now, all this time (depending) I've moved my clock ahead the nght before or as per common instruction by 2am. My cell (like yours) self corrects (when flying to different T zones) but, when does the service signal the change? I set my alarm last night, woke up, showered and when I was getting dressed received a call that I was late. I look at my phone, 6:26am. I got in my car, drove like a maniac to my destination and got there 40 minutes later. I looked at my phone, it was 8:06am. Note to self, do not use the phone as an alarm when DST changes...