FROM STAFF REPORTS
You'll lose an hour of sleep but gain an hour of sunlight.
Set clocks ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday morning or before bed Saturday night to ensure that you're not running behind schedule.
Sunday will be a 23-hour day.
Not only does time change but so does the name of each of the U.S. time zones. Eastern Standard Time becomes Eastern Daylight Time, Central Standard time becomes Central Daylight Time and so forth.
Suggested in 1784 by Benjamin Franklin but started during World War I to save energy for war production by taking advantage of later hours of daylight, the Uniform Time Act of 1966 standardized the length of Daylight Saving Time. Prior to that, states and communities chose whether or not to observe Daylight Saving.
Daylight Saving was extended in 2007 by four weeks to accommodate the Energy Policy Act of 2005, with the hope of saving 10,000 barrels of oil daily.
There is no accurate way to determine energy savings from Daylight Saving Time.
Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa do not observe Daylight Saving Time.
Other parts of the world also observe Daylight Saving Time.
