This is the shortest weekend of the year, when we spring forward officially at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 8.
You will lose an hour of sleep but gain the daylight in the evening.
Many people don't like the changing of the clocks, but CCAC astrology professor Patrick Huth says if we were to stay on the time that we are on now, which is called Standard Time, the sun would rise in Pittsburgh before 5 a.m. in the middle of summer.
“The sky would start to get bright with morning twilight probably about 4 a.m., there would be light coming in your window so, it makes sense to move the clocks ahead one hour and enjoy that extra daylight in the summer, in the evening, said Professor Huth.
So then, why not stay on daylight savings time year-round?
Huth says that wouldn't be good in the winter. “Our winter sunrise wouldn’t happen until maybe 8:30 or 8:45 in the morning and that’s too late, keeping the morning so dark.”
And, that’s why he says we switch back in October.