DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
STARTS SUNDAY, MARCH 10
Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday, March 10,
2013 (and ends Sunday, November 3, 2013).
With
modern technology, most phones autoset and computers automatically update to
sync with the time change. However, the
time change still can be confusing. Most people remember the trick to
clock changing by the old quote of "spring forward, fall backward,"
which reminds us to set forward our clocks for Daylight Saving Time in the
spring and set backward for Standard Time in the fall.
So what
is Daylight Saving Time? Its origins go back to Benjamin Franklin who supposedly
came up with
the idea. The point of setting back the
clocks is to give an extra hour of daylight in the afternoon, while having an
hour less of daylight in the morning. Yet, it was not put into
practice across most of the United
States until 1967. And beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time was
expanded --- Americans now observe Daylight Saving Time from the second Sunday
of March until the first
Sunday of November.
Likely few people will move the clock hand, or dial, forward an hour exactly
at 2:00 am local time. But that's when Daylight Saving Time
officially begins on Sunday, March 10. Ever
wonder why we change the clock at 2:00 am?
During the time
change, the National Fire Protection Association and the U.S. Consumer Product
Safety Commission recommend that consumers change the battery in smoke and
carbon monoxide detectors.
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