LOS ANGELES (KNX) — Every year like clockwork we’re reminded to “spring forward” and lose one hour of sleep to daylight saving time. And Sunday will be that day. Chin up! It may sound like a bummer to lose some sleep, but we’re all gaining one more hour of daylight.
To make sure you’re not late for any important events this weekend, be sure to set your clocks ahead one hour when you go to bed on Saturday night. Daylight saving will begin promptly at 2 a.m. Sunday morning.
Most of the United States and its territories observe the time change, except for the U.S. Virgin Islands, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and most of Arizona, according to Reader's Digest.
Every year, thousands question why we haven't done away with the time change practice — but do you know how it started?
The U.S. first put the practice into place in 1918, as a way to save energy during WWI, according to the The Sacramento Bee. It didn't last long, but returned again in the 1940s as another war took place and was made official in 1966 with the Uniform Time Act, the newspaper reported.
You may recall, in 2018, 60 percent of California voters voted to end daylight savings' time in the state. Proposition 7 gave lawmakers the power to end switching the clocks. But the law itself wasn't enough to move the dial, so to speak — legislators in Sacramento still had to decide whether ot adopt daylight savings time permanently, or whether ot stay on standard time 365 days of the year. Time ran out in the 2019 legislative session to decide what to do, and thus, Californians are still stuck observing the clock switch.
The time consistently changes at 2 a.m. Sunday morning because back in the day, that period was when the least amount of traveling trains in the U.S. would be interrupted, according to Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time.
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