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Standard Time will end at 2AM on March 10, 2024, beginning nearly eight months of Daylight Saving Time. This pushes clocks forward by one hour in most states, providing more light in the evening hours and less light in the early morning hours. This time clock shift is felt most abruptly in the states located in the northern part of the country. For example, around the vernal equinox on March 19, 2024, the daily change in light in Fairbanks, Alaska, is around 400 seconds. In contrast, in Miami, Fla., that daily change is around 90 seconds. This means that in...

Yet another scandal at the poorly led Department of Transportation ... Most Americans don't like having to change their clocks twice a year for daylight saving time. An AP-NORC poll from late 2019 found that 71 percent of Americans preferred a permanent year-long time system. There's a bipartisan bill designed to eliminate the controversial "fall back, spring forward," but it's being held up in part because of an unlikely source: Pete Buttigieg, the scandal-plagued secretary of transportation. The Washington Post reports that Congress is unlikely to pass legislation anytime soon. The Sunshine Protection Act, cosponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio (R.,...

I do like the "longer days" (under DST) in summer and I also like to have the "extra" hour of sleeping time in the fall when reverting back to ST again. Who could argue with that? Not only that, the time is getting shorter and—if you believe it—can now even be reversed. So, if you remember the date—and scroll back to that specific time window—when your hammer hit your thumb instead of the nail, you ought to no longer feel any pain. Perhaps, it’s a bit of extrapolation on my part; I don’t even know. After all, the headline says:

It’s true: it’s that time of year again, already. Time to reset your clocks.In addition to death and taxes we are now required to surrender an hour of our time to government; tomorrow morning at 2:00 AM you are mandated to turn your clock ahead one hour (unless you live in Arizona or Hawaii where they successfully rebelled against this tyranny years ago). What they do with our hour is anybody’s guess but when we finally get it back next November I know it will be greatly devalued.Like the dollarIn the past you could protest by refusing to adjust your...

Here’s some good news. You are about to get back that hour of sleep you lost last spring with the return of Standard Time. Every Autumn, we say good-bye to Daylight Saving Time (often incorrectly called daylight savings time) and hello to Standard Time when most Americans turn their clocks back one hour. Standard Time returns at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday November 4. That means if you’re staying in Saturday night, you’ll want to turn your clocks back one hour before you go to bed on November 3. If you’re out and about at 2:00 a.m., set your clocks back...

Employment up! Unemployment down! (Unexpectedly.) Payrolls rose 313,000 in February, compared with the 205,000 median estimate in a survey of economists, and the two prior months were revised higher by 54,000, Labor Department figures showed Friday. Women and minorities hardest hit! Black, Hispanic unemployment hit historic lows: Just 6.9 percent of black adults were unemployed in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the second-lowest such ratio since the agency has been keeping track.Hispanic workers, too, are currently enjoying historically low rates of unemployment. At 4.9 percent in February, Hispanic unemployment is just a tenth of a percentage point...

I'm already dreading it. On Sunday, March 11, at 2 a.m., daylight saving time, the practice of moving our clocks forward one hour in the spring and backward one hour in the fall, will commence. When I wake on March 11 at my regular time - which will depend on the pub I was drowning my DST sorrows at the night before - I will be short by one hour. I will be in a stupor, for the most part, until November, when I must set my clocks back one hour - at which time I will officially resume my...

With little debate, a bill to end California’s observance of daylight saving time cleared its first committee on Monday. Assembly Bill 385 could make California the third state not to observe daylight saving time, in addition to Hawaii and Arizona. If approved by a two-thirds majority of both houses of the Legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, it would put a measure on the ballot asking voters whether or not the state should eliminate the practice. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article83558137.html#storylink=cpy

Daylight saving time officially begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, although many people opt to set their clocks one hour ahead before going to sleep Saturday night.

At 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 8, the time will officially change to 3 a.m. Don't forget to change your clocks before going to bed Saturday night.

LUBEC, Maine -- As the easternmost point in the United States, Lubec gets some of the earliest sunrises in America. But it also gets some of the most depressingly early sunsets, with the sun slipping below the horizon before 4 p.m. for weeks on end in early winter. Which is why, after months of leaving work and eating dinner in dreary darkness, the people of Lubec are eagerly awaiting the earlier-than-usual arrival of daylight saving time this year. By order of Congress, daylight saving time will start today , three weeks early. Across the country, the sun will set an...

On Sunday at 2 a.m., Daylight Saving Time ends. We move the clock back one hour to return to Standard Time, giving us a 60-minute bonus. Thanks to passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Daylight Saving Time will begin one month earlier in 2007 and will continue for an extra week. It's part of a phased move designed to conserve electricity and save an estimated 300,000 barrels of oil a year.