Signaling the annual end of Daylight Saving Time, we will turn our clocks back one hour on Sunday morning and gain an extra hour of sleep.
Here's what to know about the age-old energy-saving tradition.
Firstly, you may be butchering the way you say DST.
The phrase is properly said as Daylight Saving Time, however it is commonly referred to as Daylight Savings Time.
The United States first observed daylight saving time in 1918 as a tactic to conserve fuel during World War I by extending daylight into the evenings, according to TimeandDate.
Daylight Saving Time begins the second Sunday of March and ends the first Sunday of November, but these dates have changed over the decades. When DST was first introduced, it began the first Sunday in April and ended the last Sunday of October. Then, in 2007, the Energy Policy Act went into effect, expanding the length of Daylight Saving Time.
In 2018, California attempted to end the annual clock changes with a proposition, but it was never approved.
Most of Arizona and Hawaii do not use Daylight Saving Time.
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