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Reminder: Daylight Saving Time Vanishes Next Week
Mark it down on your to-do list! You’ll need to change your microwave and oven clock and any other analog clock you may have around the house to reflect the time change that will occur at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 5. Thankfully, phones and computers will automatically note the change, so if you forget, technology will remind you before you accidentally head to work an hour early.
But before you groan, remember that this is the “easier” time change. Instead of springing forward and “losing” an hour, we’re about to fall back and “gain” an hour of slumber. Many people rejoice over the extra hour of sleep, but can’t remember how the end of Daylight Saving Time impacts your enjoyment of daylight. The Washington Post explains that mornings will be brighter so kids and commuters won’t spend their mornings yawning in the dark. But if you like an evening walk, unfortunately, it starts to get dark earlier.
“We don’t go back to daylight saving until Sunday, March 11, 2018, about a week before spring begins,” WFAA writes. “Credit — or blame — for the biannual shift goes back to Benjamin Franklin, who published An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light in a 1784 journal after he noticed that people burned candles at night but slept past dawn.”
