You know that with seasonal change you are supposed to “spring” ahead sometime really early Sunday morning, March 12, right?
Well yes, it does depend on where you live because not all places in the United States go from standard to daylight time. Your friends and relatives in Hawaii and in many Arizona locations probably remind you they just don’t do daylight time.
However, the US official time when clocks skip an hour is 2 a.m. whatever local time you’re at.
According to a US Navy site, Congress designated that beginning in 2007 daylight time started on the second Sunday of March and ended the first Sunday of November when clocks would “fall back” to standard time.
Mark your calendar Nov. 5 for your extra hour of sleep if you think the date applies. You can click policy act for more information.
Here are five suggestions to help get through the tough change.
1. Change different clocks at different times. Change the clock by your bed before you go to sleep. So if it’s 10 p.m. move it to 11 and tell yourself you are becoming a night owl. Change the kitchen clock in the morning and think how nice it is have slept in so that what was 8 a.m. is now 9 am.
2. Don’t set the alarm for Sunday morning. See what time you can sleep to if given the chance (Unless you are in the church choir but maybe others will also be late).
3. Now, go around the house to check all the other clocks you don’t always look at such as the one on the oven, microwave and coffee pot. Even in this era of automatic computer time adjustments those don’t usually change by themselves. If you would rather not have to do this again in the fall, get a new appliance that does change automatically.
4. If you have one of those bird clocks that sounds lovely when it tweets on the hour but which you hate when you have to take out the batteries and go back to a specific time, put batteries back in and reset, then ask a friend to come over. Tell the person you want to share the joy of learning the different bird sounds and show your friend how to turn the tiny wheel in back until the right time appears.
5. Call a friend to see if that person is up. Say it’s a friendly wake-up call but actually misery likes company.
