Daylight Saving Time goes into effect on Sunday, March 9, when clocks will “spring forward” by one hour beginning at 2 a.m. The shift will essentially make it darker in the early morning hours, while leaving one extra hour of light in the evening.
It also means that March 9 will only be 23 hours long, and you’ll lose sleep if you have fixed times for waking up on the weekend. Regardless, you’ll probably feel a bit discombobulated over the following days as you adjust to a different sunlight schedule.
Clocks are pushed ahead one hour in spring to what’s commonly called “daylight saving time,” an idea first used in Germany during the First World War with the goal of saving energy. It aims to take advantage of daylight hours in the spring so that people don’t sleep through the first few hours of sunshine.
When the daylight period gets shorter in the fall, the clocks are readjusted to the proper “local standard time.”
