You won’t have to hit the snooze button on Sunday, because the end of daylight saving time will give you that extra hour of sleep you’ve been craving.
Clocks will fall back to standard time on Sunday at 2 a.m. Many of us will have to set our clocks back one hour but those with smartphones and newer alarm clocks will enjoy the automatic time settings. It is suggested making the adjustment before you go to bed on Saturday night.
Benjamin Franklin created the concept of daylight savings time in 1784 even though it wasn’t put into practice in his lifetime. He proposed the idea, although a little jokingly, to economize the use of candles by getting people out of bed earlier in the morning, making use of the natural morning light instead.
In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act for time-zone boundaries. This standardized daylight saving time practices across the country so they would not affect public transportation schedules.
The daylight savings schedule has been revised several times throughout the years. From 1987 to 2006, the country observed DST for about seven months each year. In 2007 and follows the length was extended about a month, from the second Sunday in March until the first Sunday in November.
