Set clocks ahead for daylight saving time

Clocks hang on a wall in Hands of Time, a clock store and repair shop in Savage, Md., Friday, March 8, 2013. / AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

WASHINGTON Spring must be around the corner. It's time to set the clocks forward for daylight saving time.

At 2 a.m. local time Sunday, daylight saving time arrives with the promise of many months ahead with an extra hour of evening light.

You lose an hour of sleep, but make sure to turn the clock ahead — spring forward — before heading to bed Saturday night to avoid the panic of a late rise.

It's also a good time to put new batteries in warning devices such as smoke detectors and hazard warning radios.

Some places don't observe daylight saving time. Those include Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas.

Daylight saving time ends Nov. 3.

[ms_bellinghamster]

My petition does not favor one time over the other, rather, it simply requests we pick a time and stick with it. This is the logical first step--getting the American public on board with stopping "Spring Forward, Fall Back." Please sign my petition at

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-spring-forward-fall-back-pick-time-and-stick-it/BLScDyPl.

Thank you.

[kunlealex]

It is nice to be around to hear the news when the time change withn any local places where the news is concuent.
Are we sure the Marine is update as to time zone variances to time clock to the hour within their close land commuters?
I can also remember those days when we use to have grandpa clocks on the table and that we need to estimate for a reminder of time now just new.
Even my grandma use to tell me to check if there is cloud or correspond the noon with a gauge marker then days when surdingly we can find the table clocks any more. Please help me and many others to relate to the needs to have these tools back. They are very good for what they are for; even the cooking ovens often have a type like same, but now with the microwave tools, it is hard to tell what temps the food cook but same time it cool faster too. Like Mr. Andy Runni use to say can somebody do somthing about these. Note we need all antiques before, we need more Telephone tools by every street corner at least three u know, the home phone we were promised can work and ring to same number as to say on befoe 14 years ago. Them even grown up but it is hard to tell them about some Union Nouns that they have not come to see but they were effectively operatng with the system now that have compliment the success to-date.
I know we are not left alone in these job ad needs that are very ncessary for just to know and how all even took so little time for all together, but working the farm is the only prove/proof of how all came from, for these we need to add agriculture to our Adult schooling, such as to say a compulsory ellective in our Universities and Colleges now within the school year we are prepearing to start as to year 2013's'. Success to-date have also been to effective Calendar implementations too.
Thank you for the chance given to represent many other PTA in my local Orange Park, Florida and Other Regional within aviliated PTAs. I am of the opinion that we will need a Maize/Corn tree State too in each and all the Regions States.

[maiingan]

The excuses for DST don't matter now and never did. The reasons for staying on Standard Time all year round have all been said, but I'll say them again. We can't gain or lose any daylight by changing clocks. Nature controls this according to the place in its orbit Earth is, and the latitude. Period. We have no say in this. The notion that changing clock time will have any effect on the proportion of daylight in a given place on a given day is just "magical thinking." If people want to do things when it's daytime instead of night, we can change our scheduling of these activities according to the date and latitude, instead of changing clocks and being slaves to clock time. Many private businesses and government entities have been doing exactly this for decades. There's no law against it! Often, this change of schedules according to date is called "summer hours" and "winter hours." The fact that DST adherence by people with tight schedules has a harmful, sometimes fatal, effect on human health has been known for years. It's especially harmful in spring. Finally, as compared to when DST was new, we now have many devices with clocks in them - and few can be set to automatically go on & off DST. So people waste lots of time changing these timepieces. This time could be put to much better, and less aggravating, use doing other things. Even getting a little more sleep can be important for the health of many. Like I said, these reasons have all been said before.

[Q8Baron]

Widespread implementation in the U.S. occurred shortly after W.W.I and was originally promoted to aid U.S. farmers, enabling them to begin and end work in daylight hours. As now less than 10% of the U.S. population earns its living in agriculture, this anachronism is exactly that - an anachronism that should be shelved. It causes much more fuss and inconvenience than it is worth. Many nations have either never adopted this silly practice or shed it (e.g. Russia), and function very well without it.

[oldoc44]

Perhaps it's time to end this mess twice a year and simply split the difference and let it alone. Food for thought.

[Forbes-76]

Energy is often cited as the reason. But actually it was the United Cigar Stores who lobbied for DST in 1918. JD Champ has a great read about the bizarre history of daylight saving time at jdchamp.com/dst

[signseeker1717]

Both idea and practice go back as far as the ancient Romans adjusting water clocks. In a 1787 essay, Benjamin Franklin proposed DST to save candles. Widespread implementation seems to date to WWI. 70 countries now use some form of DST. Here's a time line for those interested. http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/history.html