It’s almost time to fall back.
Daylight saving time ends on Nov. 7 at 2 a.m. Unless you’re planning on staying up into the wee hours of the morning, most people just change their clocks – in this case “falling back” an hour- before going to bed Saturday night. Most modern appliances and cell phones will make the adjustment on their own, but you may have to make the change on traditional clocks or risk running behind on Sunday.
The change shifts more daylight into the morning hours, resulting in dark afternoons.
Daylight saving time will begin on Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 2 a.m. when we spring forward and move the clocks ahead one hour. We will repeat the entire ritual again on Nov. 6, 2022 when we fall back.
Why do we change the clocks?
Benjamin Franklin is traditionally credited with idea of changing the clocks when, in 1748, he wrote a letter to the editor of the “Journal of Paris” calling for a tax on every Parisian whose windows were shuttered at sunrise to “encourage the economy of using sunshine instead of candles.” The letter was meant to be satirical but the idea of moving the clock to lessen the dependence on energy sources – in Franklin’s case candles and oil lamps– began. The concept became common during World War I as the U.S. looked to conserve energy to put towards the war effort.
The practice wasn’t made permanent in the U.S. until 1973, when President Richard Nixon signed the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act.
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