Get rested up while you can, because this weekend everyone will be “losing” an hour of sleep as daylight saving time returns and everyone “springs forward” at 2 a.m. Sunday. Hawaii and most of Arizona do not follow Daylight Saving Time. “Cher with your friends”, seems clever, but wait… daylight saving time means the clocks will turn FORWARD.
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The practice is also credited with increasing driving safety and reducing the number of auto accidents, David Prerau, the author of Seize the Daylight, told the New York Times. The act allows states and territories to opt out of Daylight Saving Time so the act is somewhat misnamed.
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. Daylight saving was repealed the following year. Time changes take place at 2 a.m. local time.
In 2005, President George W. Bush extended the daylight saving time for an extra four weeks through an energy bill.
Downside: We lose an hour of sleep Sunday. Nope, that falls to … the U.S. Department of Transportation, which oversees the nation’s time zones and the observance of Daylight Saving Time.
So getting ready for the switch is advisable.
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“[Heart attacks] were much more frequent the Monday after the spring time change and then tapered off over the other days of the week”, lead author Dr. Amneet Sandhu, a cardiology fellow at the University of Colorado in Denver, said in an American College of Cardiology news release.
