Daylight Savings Time

Daylight Savings Time, It’s nearly time to ‘Spring Forward.’ At 2 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, March 11, we’ll be springing our clocks forward-and losing an hour of the day, for Daylight Saving Time. The good news: sunset will be an hour later.

You may have noticed the annual tradition of Daylight Saving Time has crept forward a bit. We used to spring forward on the first Sunday in April and fall back on last Sunday in October. But a couple years ago, Congress changed the date-adding more Daylight Saving Time to the calendar. This year, it will run from March 11 until Nov. 4.

Unless you’re in Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands. They don’t do Daylight Saving Time.

Around the world, about 75 countries and territories have at least one location that observes Daylight Saving Time, according to TimeandDate.com. On the other hand, 164 don’t observe the time change at all.

Benjamin Franklin has been credited with the idea of Daylight Saving Time, but Britain and Germany began using the concept in World War I to conserve energy, the Washington Post observes. The U.S. used Daylight Saving Time for a brief time during the war, but it didn’t become widely accepted in the States until after the second World War.

In 1966, the Uniform Time Act outlined that clocks should be set forward on the last Sunday in April and set back the last Sunday in October.