Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday.
You pick up an extra hour of sleep as time falls back one hour.
It was Benjamin Franklin, while U.S. minister to France, who first suggested the idea in an essay titled “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light.” The essay was first published in the Journal de Paris in April 1784. But the idea first got serious consideration when Englishman, William Willett, suggested it again in 1907.
Congress approved the change in the 2005 Energy Policy Act. It added a week onto daylight-saving time in the fall and three weeks in the spring. The intention was to save energy. Some reports estimated a savings of up to 100,000 barrels of oil each day.
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On Saturday evening, check your clocks and timers.
On Sunday morning, be careful. Your body clock is still in a different time zone.
