March 13, 2010 in News

Daylight saving time returns overnight

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WASHINGTON (AP) — America is springing forward.

Most Americans trade an hour’s sleep this weekend for more evening sunshine to enjoy after work.

Officially the change to daylight saving time occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday, local time, though most folks set their clocks and watches ahead an hour before going to bed on Saturday.

In areas that observe the change, clocks fall back when standard time returns Nov. 7.

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Three comments on this story so far. Add yours!

  • twobit on March 13 at 9:51 a.m.

    waste of time lets do away with this crap

  • deacon46 on March 13 at 11:54 a.m.

    As long as the Government is made of ww11 and take us back to the 1950s people we will have this crap. I will not live long enough to see the end of this stupidity.

  • UniKyrn on March 13 at 2:26 p.m.

    And to make matters worse, they had to change the dates, making the software in millions of pieces of consumer electronics worthless, because there was no way to update the software with the new dates. Even now you can drive around Spokane for a few weeks and see bank time/temp displays that have the wrong time because they didn’t get their software updated either.

    It’s enough to make me want to move to Arizona, where they told Wash DC what they could do with their insane scheme.

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